Annual Report 2007 - Canadian Psychological Association

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Annual Report
Annual General Meeting
Canadian Psychological Association
Friday, June 8, 2007, 5:00 pm
Confederation 1 Room
Westin Ottawa Hotel
Ottawa, Ontario
Annual Report
2006-2007
Table of Contents
PRESIDENT’S REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT . . . . . . . . . . .3
ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT . .7
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Dissemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Ethics, Laws and Standards . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
SECTION REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
CPA HISTORIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
CPA REPRESENTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2005 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . .57
ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007
President’s Report
The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) is a voluntary organization that covers all
aspects of psychology in Canada and that seeks to promote unity, coherence and a sense of
identity across the diverse scientific and professional interests as well as contribute to the welfare of the Canadian society. Specifically, CPA pursues four major goals: (1) to improve the
health and welfare of all Canadians; (2) to promote excellence and innovation in psychological
research, education, and practice; (3) to promote the advancement, development, dissemination, and application of psychological knowledge; and (4) to provide high-quality services to its
members. The present report summarizes some of the activities that CPA has been involved in
over the past year (June 2006-May 2007).
One of the areas in which CPA has made great strides over the past few years has been in the
promotion of the health and welfare of Canadians. This was also evident over the past 12
months. To give a few examples: (1) CPA has strongly supported the development of the
Canadian Mental Health Commission, to be chaired by The Honourable Michael Kirby. The
announcement that the Federal budget will fund the Commission is a significant step toward
developing a national strategic plan for mental health in Canada and CPA intends to play a
major role in such a task; (2) once again this year, with the collaboration of Canadian universities and provincial associations, CPA has contributed to sponsoring Psychology Month. This
activity encourages all walks of the psychology profession to “give psychology away” to the
local communities during the month of February; (3) a number of press releases, fact sheets,
and briefs have been prepared, such as the brief on autism; and (4) CPA has just signed a
$125,000 agreement with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The research spearheaded by Dr. Karen Cohen seeks to develop a web-based survey with which to collect information on the problems and characteristics of the clients private practice psychologists see and
the nature of services they provide to them. This web-based surveillance survey could even
become an annual or biannual study of the practices of private practice psychologists and
other regulated providers of mental health service.
CPA has also been active with respect to the promotion of excellence and innovation in psychological research, education, and practice. For instance: (1) we give a number of awards to
reflect excellence in these three areas, including the President’s New Researchers Awards; (2)
CPA Foundation has created new research grants of up to $2,000. These awards are meant to
help students conduct even better research; (3) CPA supported APA’s decision to stop accrediting doctoral programmes and internships in Canada. APA will stop accepting new applications
in 2008 and stop accrediting in 2015. While disagreement was initially voiced by a minority of
psychology departments, we firmly believe that the present decision is best for Canadian psychology; and (4) the Summer Institute took place in Ottawa in August 2006. This Institute
offers a series of workshops that help practitioners to stay on top of recent developments in
the field. A commitment has been made by CPA to offer such workshops on an annual basis as
long as they are financially viable.
Much action has taken place during the past year with respect to CPA’s third goal that deals
with the advancement, development, dissemination, and application of psychological knowledge. To give a few examples: (1) a committee on Public Policy has been created and is
chaired by Dr. Wendy Josephson. This committee will focus annually on certain significant
social policy problems in order to make strides toward recommendations for problem resolution. To this end, a keynote address will be devoted to this issue at our 2008 Convention in
Halifax. The first speaker will be Dr. Sheri Torjman from the Caledon Institute of Social Policy in
Ottawa; (2) we have spent an important amount of time working on a solution that would
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improve the quality of our journals as well as protect their long-term sustainability. The solution
we have decided on has been to have our journals printed and distributed by APA. APA will offer
us unparalleled visibility that should enhance the quality of papers submitted to our journals,
and thus, increase their impact factors. Furthermore, the deal that is being offered to us
should ensure their long-term viability even if at some point SSHRC discontinues their journal
funding program; and (3) at my request, we met with the new SSHRC President, Dr. Chad
Gaffield. The meeting was positive and constructive and I believe that CPA can look forward to
a meaningful relationship with Dr. Gaffield. He proved to be candid in his comments and lent a
sympathetic ear to several of our concerns and suggestions. It is expected that this meeting
will be followed by others in the future. A summary of what transpired during the meeting
appears in the Spring issue of the 2007 Psynopsis.
Finally, CPA is working hard to provide high-quality services to its members. In that vein, a number of developments need to be highlighted: (1) CPA is working toward a final version of a
Strategic Plan that should lead our whole association to be even more productive; (2) we have
added a student representative to the Board of Directors (Kelly Smith). Having a student representative should ensure that the needs of students are well cared for; (3) CPA continues to be
open to ways of co-operating with the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive
Sciences. For instance, we have invited their President, Dr. Carolyn Harley, as well as their
whole group to attend the annual convention in Ottawa. In addition, we are working towards a
more formal acknowledgement of the valuable contributions their members make to the
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology; and finally (4) CPA has taken great strides
toward making the annual convention better in a variety of ways. This is probably closer to my
heart as I have been the Chair of the Convention Committee for the past two years. Here are a
few of the changes that have taken place: a later abstract submission date (November 15); a
national and international advertisement that should substantially increase the number and
quality of presentations; an increased number of outstanding keynote and invited speakers;
and interesting social events (such as a cruise on the Rideau Canal and the music jam session) that provide opportunities for networking. We are very pleased to have the opportunity to
support the North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference which is
being held with our convention. It is with much pride and anticipation that I look forward to the
2007 Ottawa annual convention. It just might be our best and biggest convention ever!
In closing, I would like to end by saying how much joy it has been for me to work as President
this year. This presidency year has allowed me to more fully realize the extent to which all
board members and central office personnel are passionate about the cause of psychology in
Canada. Perhaps most memorable for me were the bi-weekly phone calls that I’ve had the privilege to share with our distinguished Executive Director Dr. John Service. These talks have
allowed us not only to talk about Psychology across Canada, but hopefully to act on behalf of
CPA’s best interest. John, I will miss those phone calls. So, as I prepare to pass the CPA gavel
to the highly motivated Dr. Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, I’d like to thank all of you for your
involvement in the cause of Canadian Psychology and for making my job so much fun.
Robert J. Vallerand, CPA President
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Executive Director’s Report
INTRODUCTION
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Two important initiatives came to a close last fall. The Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration
in Primary Health Care Initiative (EICP) finished at the end of September. As Chair it gave CPA
and psychology tremendous profile which continues today. The Association receives invitations
to meetings and discussions that were previously closed to the discipline. Issues important to
psychology in research and practice are now more routinely discussed.
CPA’s term as the Chair of the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health
(CAMIMH) also came to an end. The Alliance is the largest and most comprehensive mental
health consortium in Canada. Psychology represented CAMIMH at the political level to the federal government and the provinces and territories and was the host of the CAMIMH Champions
of Mental Health Luncheon for four years. This opportunity provided CPA and psychology with
similar benefits as outlined above under the EICP Initiative.
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OFFICE
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Finances
Please see the 2006 Auditor’s report. The financial base of the Association is solid. CPA’s
investments are now $1,132,197.00 which provides an income stream and financial security.
Membership crossed the 6,000 threshold in 2007, an important milestone. In 2007/2008,
CPA has signed two agreements with the Public Health Agency of Canada totalling $130,000.
Contracts are an important part of the revenue stream and provide significant benefit to the
Canadian public, the government and the Association. CPA is also negotiating a journal printing
agreement with APA that is intended to strengthen the financial base of the three journals.
In terms of the future, the major issue all associations are beginning to discuss is the possible
impact of the “baby boom” retirements on membership recruitment, retention and income. It is
estimated this will begin to become a major issue in 5 to 10 years. Another concern is business continuity during a possible pandemic. CPA is beginning to develop a business continuity
plan for the Association and will share this information with members.
Staff Complement
Nigel Flear was hired as CPA’s new Systems Administrator in September of 2006. The size and
nature of our information technology infrastructure indicated it was time to engage the services
of a full time in-house information technology person. This decision has improved functionality,
efficiency and timeliness.
Web Site
The transition to the new site is complete. Visitors report they like the “look and feel” of the
new site and its quality, reliability and utility. We have received many compliments. This is
important because the site is the face of the organization.
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ADVOCACY
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CPA undertakes many activities to support the discipline of psychology. The following are some
examples under science and practice.
SCIENCE
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Funding for Research
The Federal Government’s 2007 budget was not strong in the funding of science. There was a
small percentage increase for the indirect costs of research program and small increases for
the three granting councils. This is problematic because of the increasing demand on the
research grants programs of the councils.
Good news included an increase in funding for the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, a significant transfer to the provinces for university “bricks and mortar” expenses and more support
for graduate students.
CPA advocates for research unilaterally and in concert with other associations with membership in groups such as the Canadian Consortium for Research, the Canadian Alliance on
Mental Illness and Mental Health and the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of
Canada.
Mental Health Research
The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health supported the recommendation in
the Senate of Canada’s Report on mental health in Canada entitled Out of the Shadows at Last
for a permanent increase of $25 million for the Institute for Neuroscience, Mental Health and
Addictions. This request did not find its way into the 2007 Federal Budget.
CPA and CAMIMH supported the Public Health Agency of Canada’s new study: The Human Face
of Mental Health and Mental Illness in Canada 2006. This study follows A Report on Mental
Illness in Canada (2004). These reports are efforts to fill the glaring lack of reliable and useful
mental health data in Canada. As part of this same initiative, CPA received a grant of $125
thousand from the Public Health Agency to gather epidemiological data from sentinel psychology private practices across Canada.
SSHRC’s New President: The CPA President and Executive Director met with Dr. Chad Gaffield,
the new SSHRC President. The appointment of Dr. Gaffield is an important development for
SSHRC. He is an Historian from the University of Ottawa and well known to CPA.
Consultations: A national consultation by several agencies including the Canadian Health
Services Research Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Heath Research, Statistics Canada,
Health Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) looked at research policy over the next ten years. CIHI and Health Canada are meeting with several health disciplines
to determine methods of collecting more extensive and reliable data on practitioners and the
clients/patients they serve. The Association was involved in two CIHI projects to set performance indicators for primary health care and mental health care. Neuroscience Canada held a
consultation to discuss methods of increasing awareness of neuro and cognitive sciences and
to increase funding.
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PRACTICE
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A Mental Health Commission: CPA and CAMIMH took leading roles in supporting the Senate of
Canada’s investigation of mental health in Canada and their subsequent report Out of the
Shadows At Last. The report recommended the formation of a mental health commission and
the Federal Government took that advice by announcing the Canadian Mental Health
Commission to begin in 2007. The Commission has provincial/territorial support and will develop a national plan to address mental health, mental illness and addictions in Canada, implement an anti stigma program, devise methods to improve access to services, recommend ways
of increasing research funding, etc. The Commission will be at arms length from government
and involve the provinces and territories, providers and patients.
Emergency Preparedness and Response: The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has a
focus on emergencies and particularly influenza pandemic preparedness. PHAC and CPA cohosted a two day workshop to examine the psychological and social aspects of pandemics.
CPA was invited to participate in consultations held by the Agency on disasters, seniors and
children. The Association is on an Agency advisory committee to develop a web based course
to teach hospital personnel how to address the psychological consequences of disasters. CPA
received a grant from the Agency to prepare fact sheets on psychological factors related to an
influenza pandemic for select target populations.
Practice Tools: The Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health Care Initiative
has given CPA the opportunity to provide web based information and tools to assist psychologists in developing collaborative practices. They will be available on the web site in the near
future.
Human Resource Planning: As the baby boom retirements approach, the issue of human
resource planning becomes more acute for universities, businesses and human service organizations such as hospitals, criminal justice settings, schools and social welfare agencies. It will
also impact private practice. The Health Action Lobby, of which CPA is a member, has produced
a position paper and is in dialogue with provincial governments. CPA has championed two
aspects that are usually ignored in health policy and health human resource planning in
Canada; the inclusion of privately funded services and their interface with publicly funded organizations in terms of access to services and the realization that psychological services are provided in a number of venues outside of publicly funded health services.
John Service, Executive Director
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Associate Executive
Director’s Report
Canadian Collaborative Mental Health Initiative (CCMHI): CPA sits on the management committee of this Initiative which has received further funding from Health Canada to disseminate
its collaborative practice toolkits. Several meetings have been convened to discuss project
management and a meeting of the Steering Committee is planned to discuss the project’s
activities, deliverables and scope.
Collaborative education tool kit initiative: A separate but related collaborative health care initiative has received funding from Health Canada to develop seminars and webinars to train
practitioners to work collaborative and to train others among their healthcare provider groups to
work collaboratively. CPA sits on the steering committee of this initiative.
Disability Tax Reform: CPA participates in telemeetings with other health care providers, tax
and law professionals and the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) Officials around issues related
to the administration of the Disability Tax Credit. CPA has drafted an article for use by designated health care providers in navigating eligibility of their patients with impairments in mental
functions for the DTC which has now been reviewed by the CRA and will be published in
Psynopsis and on the website. We will send it to other health care provider groups for information of their members.
Canadian Association of School Health (CASH): CPA is a member of this Association of associations interested in promoting health in the schools. We consulted to CASH in the planning of
their School Health Conference and were able to give them several names of psychologists
who could assist in the development of webinars on mental health in the schools.
Association of Accrediting Agencies of Canada (AAAC): CPA continues as a member of the
AAAC.
Continuing Education: The CPA Continuing Education Institute is planned for September 19th,
20 and 21st in Ottawa. This year’s roster of workshop topics include positive aging, couples
therapy, ocd, learning disabilities in adults, MMPI-2, bullying, child abuse and developments in
evidence based psychotherapy practice.
Head office continues to work collaboratively with the E&T committee to review policies and
procedures relating to the granting of CE for conferences and other emergent continuing education events. Head office continues to review applications for CE credit. See Education and
Training report for details on number of sponsorships approved in 2007.
Accreditation: In February of 2007, the APA Council of Representatives passed the proposal
made by the Committee on Accreditation (CoA) of the APA to stop accrediting in Canada. At present, we are working with the CoA to draft changes to the Memorandum of Understanding to
accommodate the transition. The CoA will designate a date beyond which it will not receive new
applications for accreditation (e.g. 2008) and a date some years later (e.g. 2015) beyond
which all terms of currently concurrently accredited programmes will expire. The CPA is committed to working with international partners on developing models or mechanisms of international
accreditation. We are also committed to promoting the rigour of CPA Accreditation Standards
with bodies and associations that license and employ psychologists and psychology doctoral
students. The CPA Accreditation Registrar and the CPA AED presented at the April meeting of
the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) on this topic and were
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pleased to note that our presentation and the value of CPA accreditation were very well
received. The ASPPB has indicated their willingness to help us promote CPA standards among
their membership and a statement is being prepared for them to consider posting on their website and disseminating to members. Further, a letter has been sent to the members of ASPPB
summarizing CPA Standards and calling for their equivalent treatment to APA Guidelines on
Accreditation. We note the repeated appreciation of CPA Standards voiced by U.S. regulatory
bodies that the CPA Standards, with their prescriptive and outcome focus, were appreciated by
regulators in assessing eligibility of candidates for licensure.
Other Accreditation activities are as reported in the Accreditation Panel report submitted by its
Chairperson, Dr. Bob McIlwraith. Dr. Caputo completes the first year of his tenure as Registrar
to the Accreditation Panel and has managed his responsibilities conscientiously and well and
to the complete satisfaction of the Panel.
CPA Psychology Charity Run: A CPA run/walk is planned along the Rideau Canal (5K and 8K
routes) at the June 2007 convention in Ottawa. Proceeds from this year’s run will go to a local
charity, Operation Go Home, an organization dedicated to meeting the needs of street youth.
Fact Sheets: CPA continues to add to its archive of fact sheets – the most recent one offers
advice on the psychological aspects of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In response to concerns
from sections about the process for vetting and ultimately determining fact sheet topics and
contents, we have drafted a policy statement for consideration by the Board at its June 2007
meeting (see meeting agenda)
Mental Illness Surveillance: We have completed our second Public Health Agency of Canada
(PHAC) contract for the development of the questions for a database and web-based survey of
psychological private practices. The questions have been developed for a proposed database
and survey of psychologist practitioners and a report submitted to PHAC. Our funding proposal to
PHAC, in the amount of $125,000, to develop the software to collect the database information
and deliver the web-based survey was approved in March 2007. Work for the project is now
underway, starting with software development with which to administer the survey. This is an
important grant for CPA in that it showcases the recognition the PHAC is according to psychologists as primary providers of mental health care. It is also an important opportunity for the profession to collect some data about psychological private practice and, once having developed
the technology, to lead similar initiatives with other providers of mental health service.
Experts Committee for Human Research Participant Protection in Canada: We continue to sit
on this committee which has been meeting monthly since September 2006. Our contributions
have been suggesting how an accreditation system might be developed and organized to meet
the needs of REBs and human research participants as well as to be inclusive of the social science as well as biomedical communities. The Committee will likely end its work and release its
recommendations to government in the fall of 2007.
Other AED activities:
• Mentoring CPA’s new Accreditation Registrar and transitioning accreditation roles and
responsibilities.
• Continue to attend meetings and provide support to the regulators of CPAP.
• Represented CPA with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, a multi-disciplinary group
looking at health human resource in cancer care
• Continue consultation to public and other associations and agencies about study and practice of psychology.
Karen Cohen, Associate Executive Director
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Committee Reports
Administration
By-laws, Rules and Procedures
Fellows and Awards
Nominations
Elections
Past-Presidents
COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS,
RULES
AND PROCEDURES
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The members of the Committee for 2006-2007 were Chair, Daniel Perlman (Past-President)
and John Service (Executive Director).
The proposed By-Law amendments to be presented to the June, 2007 Annual General Meeting
are: By-Law VIII Committees – regarding the Publications Committee to become a Standing
Committee of the Association and the Ethics Committee Chair need not be a Member of the
CPA Board, and By-law II – Affiliation, regarding Student Sponsorship for CPA Membership.
Daniel Perlman, Chair.
COMMITTEE ON
FELLOWS
AND AWARDS
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The members of the Committee for 2006-2007 were Past-President Daniel Perlman (Chair);
Education & Training representatives: Lorraine Radtke and Sandra Byers; Practice representatives: Olga Heath and John Pearce; Science representatives: Richard Neufeld and David
Dozois; Masters Degree representative: Juanita Mureika.
The following CPA members were nominated by the Committee and approved by the Board of
Directors for the status of Fellow of the Association:
Karen Cohen
Beth Haverkamp
Daryl Kroner
Stewart Longman
John Tivendell
Robert Van Mastrigt
Richard Walsh-Bowers
The following CPA members and non members were nominated by the Committee and
approved by the Board of Directors for the 2007 CPA Awards:
• CPA Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Canadian Psychology:
Byron P. Rourke
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• CPA Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service to the Canadian Psychological Association:
Beatrice Wickett-Nesbitt
• CPA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Richard
Koestner
• CPA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession: Leslie S.
Greenberg
• CPA Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science:
Barbara B. Sherwin
• CPA Member of the Year Award: Marvin Simner
• CPA Distinguished Practitioner Award: Rose-Marie Charest
• CPA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public or Community Service: Catherine S.
Fichten
• CPA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology:
Janel Gauthier
• CPA Humanitarian Award: The Honourable Michael Kirby
Daniel Perlman, Chair
2007 President’s New Researcher Award Recipients:
The members of the President’s New Researcher Awards Committee for 2006-2007 were
Robert Vallerand, CPA President and Committee Chair, Daniel Perlman (the immediate Past
President), Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, the (Present-elect), and David Dozois, the Chair of the
Scientific Affairs Committee.
The following CPA members were recommended by the Committee and approved by the Board
of Directors for the 2007 President’s New Researcher Awards:
Myra A. Fernandes
Lachlan McWilliams
Adam S. Radomsky
Robert J. Vallerand, CPA President
NOMINATING
COMMITTEE
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The members of the committee were Daniel Perlman (Chair), Deborah Abrami, Simon Grondin,
Linda McMullen (Sub-Committee on At-Large Board Seats), Philip Jai Johnson, Nick Skinner and
Joe Snyder (Sub-Committee on Designated Board Seats).
This year, nominations were required for President-Elect one Director at-large Reserved for a
Masters level Psychologist or Psychological Associate and one director Scientist-Practitioner.
The call for nominations appeared in the summer and fall issues of Psynopsis and was also circulated to CPA section chairs, the chairs of departments of psychology and to the CPA membership through e-mail.
In accordance with By-Law IX, the Sub-committee on At-large Board Seats, the Sub-committee
on Designated Board Seats and the Nominations Committee sitting as a Committee of the
Whole reviewed nominees and confirmed that all candidates were properly nominated, were
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CPA members in good standing and were eligible for nomination in their respective categories.
The Executive Director, in his capacity as Chair of the Elections Committee, was so informed.
The Nomination Committee expresses its appreciation to those members who allowed their
names to stand for nomination and its congratulations to those who will join the Board.
As Chair, I offer my thanks to the members of the Committee.
COMMITTEE
ON
ELECTIONS
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Members of the Committee for 2006-2007 were John C. Service (Chair), Juanita Mureika and
Daniel Perlman. Ballots were counted at Head Office on March 16th with the assistance of
Marie-Christine Pearson (delegated on behalf of the Past-President), Catherine McNeely (delegated on behalf of the Chair of Sections), and Renée Bertrand.
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Dr. Peter Bieling was elected to the seat of Scientist-Practitioner;
Ms. Juanita Mureika was elected by acclamation for the seat of Director-at-large reserved
for a Masters Level Psychologist or Psychological Associate
Ms. Kelly Smith was elected Chair-elect of the CPA Section for Students and as such elected a member of the CPA Board.
Incredible as it may seem, we had a tie for President-Elect. The ballots were recounted several
times and verified by five staff members. A second ballot for the seat of President-elect was
mailed with the spring issue of Psynopsis. Ballots were counted on May 24th.
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Dr. Catherine Lee was duly elected President-elect.
COMMITTEE
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PAST-PRESIDENTS
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The role of the Committee of Past-Presidents is to advise and assist the Board of Directors and
the Presidential Officers whenever appropriate. The Committee met at the 2006 Convention to
discuss various issues of interest to the Association.
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Membership
Membership Committee
MEMBERSHIP
COMMITTEE
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Committee Members: Peter Bieling (Hamilton), Christine Chambers (Halifax), Thomas
Hadjistavropoulos (Regina). Amanda Lints-Martindale (Regina), Kelly Smith (Kingston), William
Whelton, (Edmonton)
In the fall of 2006, the membership committee prepared a strategic plan that was aimed at
increasing the proportion of Canadian psychologists and psychology trainees who are members
of CPA. The document includes a number of recommendations that are being examined by the
board and the CPA Head Office. One of these recommendations was to find ways to increase
representation of scientists working within the NSERC mandate in the membership and board
of CPA. To this end, the board passed a motion to designate the next member-at-large board
opening for a member of CPA who works within the NSERC mandate. Additional recommendations included a focus on recruiting more undergraduate students for CPA membership. To this
end, the membership committee worked together with the student section of CPA to more consistently appoint both graduate and undergraduate student (as well as faculty) representatives
in institutions across Canada. We have recommended that a special effort be made to establish student/faculty representatives in educational and counselling psychology departments (as
we did not tend to have representatives outside psychology departments). A variety of other initiatives are being examined including the possibility of establishing a gift CPA membership program (i.e., the possibility that people will be able to purchase memberships as gifts for others).
The Table below shows the membership numbers for December 31, 2006 (the 2005 numbers
are presented for comparison purposes):
December 2006
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Closing Statistics
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP
5921
5796
CPA Member
CPA Fellow
Honourary Life Member/Fellow
Student
International Affiliate
International Student Affiliate
Retired Fellow
Retired member
Special Affiliate
3994
201
238
1361
29
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6
48
37
3883
195
228
1346
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December 2006
Closing Statistics
December 2005
Closing Statistics
Demographic Information*
Male
Female
Primary Language English
Primary Language French
2253
3637
5439
488
2273
3489
5255
541
Journal/Newspaper Distribution
CP
CJBS
CJEP
Psynopsis
5615
4507
738
5682
5581
4517
668
5632
* The numbers in this section do not add up to the total membership numbers because some members
did not indicate their gender. In addition, some members did not indicate a primary language.
The above table shows that the CPA membership numbers continue to increase. We noted,
however, that, compared to 2005, there was a drop in the number of members whose primary
language is French. An examination of the statistics from previous years suggests that this is
not the reflection of a yearly trend but likely the result of people (whose primary language is
French) who joined in order to attend the Montreal convention but then let their membership
lapse following the convention. This having been said, the membership committee through its
fall 2006 strategic document, recognizes the need for CPA to further increase its recruitment
efforts among francophone psychologists and the board of CPA has been discussing this issue.
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Chair
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Committee on Sections
Public Information and Communications
Public Policy
International Relations
Canadian National Committee
COMMITTEE
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The Committee on Sections launched the year with an afternoon meeting of Chairs and a dinner meeting with the CPA Board at the 2006 Convention. That meeting set a tone of collegiality
and cooperation between the Chairs and Board, as well as a number of action items for each,
that have resulted in a very positive and productive year for us.
The Committee of Sections has been assisted in communicating with the formation of the email distribution list, [email protected], with the assistance of Catherine McNeely and Nigel
Flear. This new distribution list has managed to capture all Section chairs, and has provided us
a reliable vehicle for good and steady exchange of topics and issues through it. The list serve
has been an ongoing request of the Chairs, and we all appreciate the efforts of Catherine and
Nigel to make this happen. Nigel has also surveyed Chairs regarding their need for membership
information, and he is working to ensure that Section Chairs are able to access the information
identified in the survey.
Two Sections have successfully completed new Guidelines documents for CPA. The Section of
Women in Psychology has developed Guidelines for Ethical Psychological Practice with
Women, which replaces the Guidelines for Therapy and Counselling with Women (1980). The
Board also approved the Guidelines for Professional Practice in School Psychology in Canada,
revised by the Section of Psychologists in Education from the original document developed by
the Department of Education in New Brunswick (2001), and adopted by the Board at the time
as a policy document. Both documents are expected to be available at the 2007 Convention.
CPA is pleased to welcome its newest Section, the Section on Sports and Exercise. Tricia
Orzek and Gerry Farthing have worked tirelessly to establish this group as a Section, from its
status as an Interest Group last year. They are both to be congratulated for their hard work in
providing this additional Section to CPA members.
Several Sections have changed their By-laws to incorporate changes made to the model Bylaws enabling Sections to conduct elections by electronic votes. The Model By-laws have also
been amended to allow student members of Sections to hold office on Section executives,
reflecting the new seat on the CPA Board for a student member.
The Section Chairs will meet at the 2007 Convention to continue to dialogue on common
issues. Once again, the Board will host a dinner meeting with Section Chairs. The Executive
and staff of CPA have been very responsive to the needs expressed by the Section Chairs in
June 2006, and are appreciative of the efforts of Sections to improve CPA. The meeting with
Section Chairs in June 2007 will mark a continuation of the proactive and positive collaboration
of the Sections and the Board.
It has been my pleasure to serve as Board Liaison to the Sections this year.
Juanita Mureika, Chair
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PUBLIC INFORMATION
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COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
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Web Site
The development of the CPA web site is complete. We have received a number of very positive
comments about the site from members, other associations, the public, government officials
and the media.
The CPA web site remains popular however visits to the site are down from 2006. The average
pageviews per day thus far in 2007 is 11,141 as opposed to 13,363 for 2006. A ‘Pageview’ is
defined as a request from a visitor’s browser for a displayable web page. We are planning to
develop ‘metatags’ and to increase links from other web sites to our web pages in order to
increase visits by the public and other potential visitors to our site.
Scotiabank and The Personal insurance company have requested placement of their logos with
live links to their sites which generates considerable revenue for CPA. The web site generates
an increasing amount of revenue though career advertising, though overall advertising revenue
was roughly the same for 2006 as 2005 because advertising decreased in Psynopsis.
Media Relations
CPA receives several media requests per week and our response to the requests has been
quite successful. The system is working effectively resulting in numerous media sources returning to CPA to find a psychologist.
Juanita Mureika, Chair
COMMITTEE
ON
PUBLIC POLICY
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Although CPA has had an ad hoc committee on public policy for some years, a regular Board
Committee on Public Policy was established this year to support and promote the application of
psychology as a science and a profession to advancement of human welfare through influence
on public policy. The Committee included Karen Cohen, Associate Executive Director of CPA,
and Board members Elizabeth Church, Jennifer Frain, Juanita Mureika, Dan Perlman, and Bob
Vallerand. The other members of the Committee were Linda McMullen (University of
Saskatchewan), Cameron Norman (University of Toronto), Pat O’Neill (Acadia), Sandra Pyke
(York), Lisa Serbin (Concordia), Don Sharpe (University of Regina), and Steve Wright (Simon
Fraser). My sincere gratitude goes to the members of this committee for their dedication and
wise council.
Consistent with Principle IV of the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists, the Committee
seeks to apply psychological knowledge to promote social structures and policies that maintain
and enhance the welfare of all human beings, respect for the dignity of persons, responsible
caring, integrity in relationships and responsibility to society. The Committee’s terms of reference include the following goals:
• To increase awareness of relevant psychological research among policy makers
• To inform the public of psychological knowledge relevant to public policy during times of public discussion and debate regarding that policy
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• To encourage psychologists to recognize and articulate the public policy implications of their
research, where such implications exist
The Committee has arranged for a speaker on public policy for the Halifax Convention in 2008.
Sherri Torjman, Vice-President of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, will give a talk tentatively entitled From Psychology to Policy on the potential contributions of psychology research and
practice to public policy. We may also be able to organize a panel of Canadian psychologists
doing work in the public policy area, for the Halifax convention. My thanks to Elizabeth Church,
Linda McMullen, and Lisa Serbin for their ideas on the panel.
I have been participating with Ian Nicholson, Chair of the CPA Professional Affairs Committee,
in working groups for PREVNet, a network of Canadian researchers and organizations formed in
2006 with the goal of reducing bullying in Canada. With Natasha Teoli, Advocacy Manager of
the Council of Provincial Associations of Psychologists, we circulated a press release in
November about prevention of bullying, and facilitated public presentations on the topic during
February for Psychology Month. Ian and I will also attend the PREVNet annual conference this
month, to present a workshop for governmental and nongovernmental organizations called
Psychology is for Everyone: How to Access Psychology Resources for your Program. Thanks to
Jennifer Frain, Juanita Mureika, and Dan Perlman for their help and advice in our involvement
with PREVNet.
We have begun discussions about establishing a CPA task force on violence, which would
begin its work in the near future. My thanks to John Service and Lisa Serbin for this suggestion, and to the Committee members who enthusiastically supported the idea.
Wendy L. Josephson, Chair
COMMITTEE ON
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
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The International Relations Committee (IRC) for 2005-2006 consisted of Janel Gauthier (Chair),
Ozge Akcali, John Adair, John Berry (Secretary), Gira Bhatt, Anthony Dugbartey, Gary Latham,
Soosan Latham, Kimberly Noels, Pierre Ritchie, Michel Sabourin, Saba Sadfar, Sonia Singh,
Peter Suedfeld, Randal Tonks, Robert Vallerand (CPA Board Representative), Marta Young.
The committee oversees and makes recommendations on matters pertaining to CPA’s representation and activities in international psychology.
Activities included mainly representations on international associations:
International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS): See the report of the Canadian
National Committee (CNC) of the National Research Council for the International Union of
Psychological Science. The CNC is the body responsible for Canada’s membership and representation within the IUPsyS (see www.iupsys.org for further details).
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP): The objectives of the IAAP are to promote the advancement of applied psychology around the world, chiefly through its quadrennial
International Congresses of Applied Psychology and the journal Applied Psychology: An
International Review (see www.iaapsy.org for further details). The IAAP has only individual members. Canada is represented on the IAAP Board of Directors by John Berry (Member-at-Large),
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Psychology), Esther Greenglass (President of Division on Health Psychology), and Richard
Young (President of Division on Counselling Psychology). The IAAP Board of Directors met in
Athens on July 15 & 16, 2006. At the meeting, Janel Gauthier was elected Secretary-General of
IAAP for 4-year term (he had been a Board Member since 2002) and John Berry was elected
Member-at-Large for a second 8-year term. The next International Congresses of Applied
Psychology will be held in Melbourne, Australia (July 11-16, 2010) and Paris, France (2014).
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP): The IACCP promotes
research and communication within cross-cultural psychology through its biennial congresses
and its publications: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, the IACCP Bulletin, and biennial congress proceedings volumes (see www.iaccp.org for further details). Kimberly Noels is the
Canadian IACCP member who serves as Regional Representative for North America. The next
IACCP congress will be held in Bremen, Germany, July 27-31, 2008.
InterAmerican Society of Psychology (ISP/SIP): The membership of SIP (the Spanish-language acronym) is made up of individual psychologists. The organization coordinates activities
on behalf of psychology in the Americas, publishes the Interamerican Journal of Psychology,
and organizes Interamerican congresses every two years (see www.sipsych.org for further
details. The next SIP congresses will be held in Mexico (July 1-5, 2007) and Guatemala (2009).
Other International Psychology Organizations. CPA Members/Fellows are encouraged to bring
to the attention of the committee their involvement in other international societies and associations.
New activities are considered for 2007-2008. One of them includes the creation of a biannual
column called “international Affairs” to be published in Psynopsis with a link to the CPA website for full text. Another one involves an annual submission to the CPA convention programme
to highlight international issues and contributions in psychology. Both will be done in cooperation with the Canadian National Committee of the National Research Council for the
International Union of Psychological Science and the CPA Section on Cross-cultural psychology.
Janel Gauthier, Chair
CANADIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL
RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
UNION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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The Canadian National Committee (CNC) for 2005-2006 consisted of Janel Gauthier (Chair),
John Berry (ex-officio, Secretary), Kenneth Craig (member-at-large – health science), Douglas
Mewhort (member-at-large – neuro/bio/behavioral science), Pierre Ritchie (ex-officio) and
Michel Sabourin (ex-officio), Robert Vallerand (CPA Board representative) and Jennifer Veitch
(member-at-large – social science).
The Canadian National Committee (CNC) is the body responsible for Canada’s membership and
representation within the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS). It was created
through an agreement between the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), and the National
Research Council of Canada (NRC), which jointly with CPA supports Canada’s affiliation with
IUPsyS. It is tied through its membership to the CPA Board of Directors and the CPA
International Relations Committee (IRC). IUPsyS is an international organization of national
associations of psychology that promotes psychology’s presence and involvement in international arenas. It sponsors the quadrennial International Congress of Psychology and publishes
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the International Journal of Psychology and a CD-ROM Psychology: IUPsyS Global Resource (see
www.iupsys.org for further details).
The last IUPsyS General Assembly was held in Athens on July 20-21, 2006, in conjunction with
the International Congress of Applied Psychology. As Canadian delegates to the IUPsyS General
Assembly, John Berry and Janel Gauthier attended the assembly and submitted a report to the
NRC after their return to Canada. Although Canada is entitled to two delegates and two votes
at the IUPsyS General Assembly, only one delegate received financial support to attend the
IUPsyS General Assembly. In fact, the NRC had decided unilaterally in 2005 to and by keeping
its contribution to the reimbursement of travel expenses at the same level as in 1999. In
2005-2006, the CNC and the CPA President had protested and pleaded for the reinstatement
of financial support for the two delegates to which Canada is entitled as a Member of the
IUPsyS, but to no avail. The eroding financial support for delegates to the IUPsyS General
Assembly continues to be a major source of concerns for the CNC as the next General
Assembly is approaching – the next IUPsyS General Assembly will be held in Berlin in 2008.
Continuity in representation of Canadian psychology is desirable, and is possible when two delegates are appointed with staggered terms. This requires sponsorship for two delegates
instead of one. Without proper funding, Canada may end up being represented by only one delegate. If Canada has only one delegate, Canadian psychology risks losing its historical and current influence on the activities of IUPsyS.
As Secretary-General and Treasurer of IUPsyS, Pierre Ritchie and Michel Sabourin also attended the 2006 General Assembly, but they did not have a vote because of their office.
As Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee for the development of a universal declaration of ethical
principles for psychologists, which is under the auspices of the IUPsyS as well as the
International Association of Applied Psychology and the International Association for CrossCultural Psychology, Janel Gauthier presented a progress report to the 2006 General Assembly.
He also submitted a draft of the universal declaration for discussion. Both were well received
by the General Assembly. The current draft will be revised in 2007 and submitted for approval
in 2008.
The next International Congresses of Psychology will be held in Berlin, Germany (July 20-25,
2008) and Capetown, South Africa (2012).
Jennifer Veitch was elected to represent social science on the CNC for a term of three years
(2006-2009). She follows Richard MacLennan whose term ended in 2006. CPA
Members/Fellows will be invited in the fall issue of Psynopsis to nominate for a member-atlarge position on the CNC representing neuro-bio-behavioral science. Neuroscientists, cognitive
scientists and behavioral scientists interested in international affairs are kindly encouraged to
run for the position.
Janel Gauthier, Chair
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Dissemination
Publications Committee
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
Canadian Psychology
PUBLICATIONS
COMMITTEE
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This was a good year for the CPA journals, all of which are on a sound footing as the current
year ends, and a very busy year for the Committee.
The Publications Committee has not previously had formal status in the CPA by-laws as a
Standing Committee of the Board, and has been without formal terms of reference. Therefore,
the Committee took up the task this year of drawing up terms of reference, which have been
approved by the Board of Directors. The Board is presenting a motion at the Annual General
Meeting to make the Publications Committee a Standing Committee of the Board under the CPA
by-laws.
I have been working with Simon Grondin, Editor of the Canadian Journal of Experimental
Psychology (CJEP), and Carolyn Harley, President of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour
and Cognitive Science (BBCS), on a proposal to collaborate formally in the publication of CJEP.
The Publications Committee and the CPA Board of Directors have reviewed two drafts of an
agreement, and will receive a more detailed one this month for approval.
Negotiations have been underway this year with the American Psychological Association on a
proposal to have APA provide the print publication services for our three journals. Under the proposed agreement, APA would continue to provide electronic access to CPA journals via the
PsychARTICLES database, as it does now under a separate agreement, and would also produce
the paper copies of the journals. CPA would retain ownership, copyright, and editorial oversight.
CPA journal Editors would have the use of Journal Back Office, the online peer review and manuscript tracking system that is currently used for APA journals, and APA would provide other services such as a comprehensive marketing strategy. The proposed agreement would also
increase CPA’s share of the electronic licensing royalties. The Publications Committee and the
Board have provided input into several drafts of the agreement, which is currently under review
by CPA’s lawyer. The proposal is expected to be presented for approval to both bodies this
month. My thanks to all the members of the Committee, the Board, and especially to, John
Service, Dan Berman, Dan Perlman, and Bob Vallerand for all their hard work on this.
I am finishing my term on the Board of Directors in June 2007, so this is my final annual report.
I would like to express my sincere thanks and admiration to the Editors who have served during
my time as Chair of the Publications Committee: Thomas Hadjistavropoulos and John Hunsley
(CP), Lorne Sulsky and Greg Irving (CJBS), and Peter Dixon and Simon Grondin (CJEP) for their
fine work, their dedication, and the high quality of their editorial judgement. I would also like to
thank the Members at Large who provided me with advice and support during my term as Chair:
Christine Chambers, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Linda McMullen, Hank Stam, and Janet Stoppard.
Wendy Josephson, Chair
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Editorial Details. This past year I served as incoming Editor of CJBS. I began accepting new
manuscripts as of January 1, 2006. The previous editor, Dr. Lorne Sulsky, completed the
review process for manuscripts received during his tenure. Dr. Michel Claes continued serving
as the Associate Editor for French manuscripts.
Editorial Assistant. Amanda Nosko served as the Editorial Assistant for 2006.
Manuscripts. A total of 42 English manuscripts were received in 2006. This total represents a
decrease from the 57 English manuscripts received in 2005. Eighty-three percent of the manuscripts originated from Canada, and 50% were first-authored by a female. As of Sept 30, 2006,
14% of the manuscripts were accepted for publication, 60% were rejected, and the remaining
manuscripts are in various stages of review.
Fifty-three French manuscripts were received, 55% originating from within Canada (53% with
female as first author). Nineteen percent were accepted for publication, and 25% were
rejected.
The remaining manuscripts are in various stages of review.
Production for 2006. A total of 4 journal issues (Volume 38) were published in 2006. The volume was 360 pages long and consisted of 29 articles.
Timelines. For manuscripts received in 2006, the median interval between receipt of a manuscript and the mailing of a decision letter (editorial interval) is 4 months.
Budget. The editorial budget was maintained at the same levels compared to the previous
year.
Summary. Overall, journal operations went well this past year. There were some issues with
respect to finding reviewers for several manuscripts, which contributed to the slightly longer
timeline to first editorial decision. I thank the Editorial Board members and the many anonymous reviewers for their support and contributions to the editorial process.
Greg Irving, Editor
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Editor
Associate Editors
Simon Grondin, Laval
Bruce Milliken, McMaster
Valerie Thompson, Saskatchewan (January-June 2006)
Peter Graf, UBC (July-December 2006)
Editorial Board Members
Katherine Arbuthnott (Regina), Martin Arguin (Montréal), Alain Desrochers (Ottawa), Peter Dixon
(Alberta), James T. Enns (British Columbia), Stevan Harnad (Université du Québec à Montréal),
Pierre Jolicoeur (Montréal), Steve Joordens (Toronto), Raymond Klein (Dalhousie), Susan J.
Lederman (Queen's), Jo-Anne LeFèvre (Carleton), Colin M. MacLeod (Waterloo), Henry
Markovits (Université du Québec à Montréal), Michael E. J. Masson (Victoria), Murray Singer
(Manitoba), Jennifer A. Stolz (Waterloo), Bruce W. A. Whittlesea (Simon Fraser)
Editorial Board Members – International Members
Patrick Cavanagh (Harvard), Nelson Cowan (Missouri), Isabel Gauthier (Vanderbilt), Phil Higham
(Southampton), Richard Ivry (California, Berkeley), Jeff Miller (Otago), Yoshitaka Nakajima
(Kyushu), Michael Posner (Oregon), Thomas Rammsayer (Göttingen)
2006 was marked by many activities at CJEP. Besides having to take into account, like other
CPA journals, the negotiations with APA concerning an eventual adoption of their Journal Back
Office and their publications services, CJEP also had to deal with a potential partnership with
the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). Essentially, this
partnership would aim at making CJEP the official journal of the CSBBCS, while ensuring that
CPA would ultimately stay at the helm of the journal. Among other things, the agreement under
discussion would allow CSBBCS to publish the abstracts of the papers presented at its annual
convention in the journal. On the other hand, members of CSBBCS, who already have an active
role in the journal, as authors, members of the Editorial Board or external reviewers, would be
encouraged to subscribe (at a preferential rate) to CJEP. Negotiations regarding this possible
partnership have been lead by Carolyn Harley, President of CSBBCS, on behalf of the executive
committee of her organization and Wendy Josephson, President of CPA’s Publication
Committee. I would like to underline the exceptional work done by Carolyn and Wendy who have
left no stone unturned regarding the implications of this potential partnership.
June 2006 was marked by the resignation of Valerie Thompson as Associate Editor following
her appointment as Director of the Psychology Department at the University of Saskatchewan. I
want to thank Valerie for the invaluable services that she rendered to CJEP. Fortunately, Lady
Luck was on our side and Peter Graf of UBC accepted to take over her duties as Associate
Editor in July. Peter had previously held a similar assignment for the Journal of Memory &
Cognition.
Throughout the course of last year, a special issue of CJEP has started to take shape. Susan
Lederman of Queens University, in cooperation with Roberta Klatzky, has accepted to oversee
the development of this special issue tentatively titled New Directions in Touch. This issue
should be published in September 2007. We have also received an offer from France to publish, in a special issue, a series of texts on the history of neurosciences that stemmed from a
French convention that was held in Paris in 2006. Even though it is an interesting theme, the
proposal was rejected since it was not appropriate to the content of our journal.
During 2006, the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology has received 73 new manu-
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2005. We received the most manuscripts in September and October and the least in May. All
the manuscripts were submitted electronically.
Of these 73 manuscripts, 12 only were submitted in French; 26 (including 4 in French) came
from Canada, 13 from France (including 5 in English). The other manuscripts came from a
dozen other countries. Bruce Milliken reviewed 16 manuscripts, Peter Graf 10 and Valerie
Thompson 6 (including one that was rejected without being submitted to the peer review
process).
Finally, in 2006, 22 regular articles were published in the Canadian Journal of Experimental
Psychology, one brief communication, three articles in the series Canadian Laboratories and
one editorial.
Simon Grondin, Editor
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Editor (2007-2010): John Hunsley (University of Ottawa)
Associate Editor (2007-2010): Luc Pelletier (Université d’Ottawa)
Book Review Editor (2007-2010): Adam Radomsky (Concordia University)
Editorial Board Members (2007-2010):
Sylvie Belleville (Université de Montréal), Michel Boivin (Université Laval), Geneviève Bouchard
(Université de Moncton), Thérèse Bouffard (Université du Québec à Montréal), Richard Clément
(Université d’Ottawa) , Anita Delongis (University of British Columbia), Alain Desrochers
(Université d’Ottawa), Jerry Devins (University Health Network, Toronto), Michel Dugas
(Concordia University), Cynthia Fekken (Queens University), Mary Gick (Carleton University),
Joan Grusec (University of Toronto), Frédéric Guay (Université Laval) , Thomas
Hadjistavropoulos (University of Regina), Ed Helmes (James Cook University, Townsville,
Australia), Theresa Kline (University of Calgary), Catherine Lee (University of Ottawa), Eric Mash
(University of Calgary), Jeannette McGlone (Dalhousie University), Geoff Nelson (Wilfred Laurier
University), Norm O’Rourke (Simon Fraser University), Kim Shapiro (University of Wales, Bangor,
Wales), Carole Sinclair (The Hincks-Dellcrest Treatment Centre, Toronto), Esther Strauss
(University of Victoria), Sonya Symons (Acadia University), Robert Vallerand (Université du
Québec à Montréal)
2006 Issues: In 2006, under the editorship of Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, 2 editorials (one of
which appeared in both English and French), 23 articles (plus a French translation of the
Honourary President’s address and an abbreviated French translation of the President’s
address), and 24 book reviews were published in the journal. Of the original articles, 39% were
published in French; of the book reviews, 12.5% were published in French.
Editorial Transition: During 2006, the outgoing editorial team worked with the incoming editorial team to ensure a smooth transition in the running of the journal. I would like to thank
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos for his sage advice and his assistance in modifying and implementing procedures for the day to day operations of the journal office. It should also be noted that
the journal moved to requiring electronic submission of manuscripts when the new editorial
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editorial decisions.
Manuscripts: In 2006, the outgoing editorial team received and processed 15 manuscripts. Of
these 15, 2 were accepted for publication and were published in 2006. The remaining 13 submissions were rejected. The incoming editorial team began receiving manuscripts in April.
During 2006, they received and processed 48 manuscripts. Thus, in total, 63 manuscripts
were received in 2006.
Of the 48 manuscripts receiving by the incoming editorial team, 32 (67%) were in English and
16 (33%) were in French. Of the English manuscripts, 23 (72%) had first authors from within
Canada; among the French manuscripts, 11 (69%) had first authors from within Canada. Of the
48 manuscripts, 10 (21%) were rejected as inappropriate by the editor (primarily manuscripts
that did not fall within the mandate of the journal), 12 (25%) were rejected after editorial
review, and 26 (54%) were recommended for revision or were conditionally accepted (this
included the award addresses from the 2006 CPA convention). Finally, of the 48 manuscripts,
12 (25%) were eventually accepted for publication and will appear in the 2007 volume.
For initial submissions to the incoming editorial team, the mean period between submission of
the manuscript and informing authors of the editorial decision was 72.0 days (SD = 67.0
days). The review process was relatively long for some manuscripts because of challenges in
obtaining reviews, due to the specialized content and/or the language of the manuscript. For
those manuscripts that were revised and resubmitted, the mean period between resubmission
and informing authors of the editorial decision was 37.5 days (SD = 35.4 days).
John Hunsley, Editor
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Education
Accreditation
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Education and Training
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The members of the CPA Accreditation Panel in 2006 – 2007 were:
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Dr. Patrick Baillie, Psychology, Peter Lougheed Centre, Calgary General Hospital
Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky, Dept of Educational and Counseling Psychology, McGill University
Dr. Anthony Dugbartey, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission and University of Victoria
Dr. Peter Henderson, Dept of Psychology, the Ottawa Hospital
Dr. Bob McIlwraith, Dept of Clinical Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, University of
Manitoba (Chair of the Panel)
• Dr. Mary Ann Mountain, Community Mental Health Services, St. Joseph’s Care Group,
Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital
• Dr. Térez Rétfalvi, École de psychologie, Université de Moncton
• Ms. Darlene Walker (Student Member) Clinical Developmental Programme, York University.
The Panel was ably assisted by Dr. Angelo Caputo, Registrar, and Ms. Ann Marie Plante,
Accreditation Assistant.
At its Fall 2006 meeting, the Panel was pleased to grant accreditation to Internship
Programmes in Clinical Psychology at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (ROHCG), the Ottawa
Hospital, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and to the Internship in Clinical Neuropsychology
at the Ottawa Hospital.
The Panel was pleased to grant re-accreditation to the Internship Programme in Clinical
Psychology at Bloorview Kids’ Rehab; to the Internship Programmes in Counseling Psychology
at the University Counseling Centre - Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Millard Health
Centre.
At its Spring 2007 meeting, the Panel was pleased to grant accreditation to the PhD
Programme in Clinical Psychology at Lakehead University; the PhD Programme in Counseling
Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) -University of Toronto; the
PhD Programme (Recherche-Intervention) at Université Laval, and to the DPs (PsyD) Programme
at Université Laval.
The Panel also granted re-accreditation to the PhD Programmes in Clinical Psychology at McGill
University and at the University of Western Ontario; and to the Internship Programme in Clinical
Psychology at the IWK Health Centre.
As of May 16, 2007, the number of programmes by category accredited by CPA is as follows:
Clinical Psychology
Counseling Psychology
School Psychology
Clinical Neuropsychology
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The CPA Accreditation Standards are in the process of being revised to include accreditation of
doctoral programmes in School Psychology. The guidelines have been revised on-line, and a
revision of the printed Accreditation Standards and Procedures manual has been undertaken by
Dr. Karen Cohen, the former Registrar.
Site visitor training workshops were held in Vancouver (UBC Faculty of Education), Toronto
(OISE – U of T) and Montreal (McGill), with a particular emphasis on recruitment of site visitors
in the area of School Psychology.
At its February 16 meeting in Washington, DC, the APA Council of Representatives considered
the motion by APA’s Committee on Accreditation (CoA) to cease APA accreditation of programmes in Canada. Dr. Karen Cohen, Associate Executive Director of CPA and Dr. Bob
McIlwraith, Chair of the Accreditation Panel, were invited to address the APA Council of
Representatives meeting. They reported on the views expressed in a survey of CPA accredited
programmes. The survey, which had a 100% response rate, showed that 70% of Canadian programmes supported the CoA proposal, and a further 8% indicated that they would accept it if
passed; 22% of programmes opposed the proposal.
Following a thorough debate, the CoA motion to cease APA accreditation in Canada passed by
an overwhelming majority of APA Council members. Exact dates for the final deadline beyond
which APA will no longer accept applications from Canada, and the date at which all APA
accreditation in Canada will lapse, are being finalized.
Drs. Cohen and Caputo attended the mid-year meeting of the Association of State and
Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) and made a presentation to the representatives of the
regulatory bodies about the equivalency of CPA accreditation to APA accreditation.
The incoming Chair of the Accreditation Panel (effective September 1, 2007) is Dr. Jeffrey
Derevensky.
Bob McIlwraith, Chair
CONVENTION
COMMITTEE
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The present report summarizes the various activities that the Convention committee has
engaged in over the past year (June 2006-May 2007). The committee is made up of 4 section
representatives (Catherine Lee, Joe Snyder, Fredérick Grouzet, and Melanie Morrison), one liaison person (Juanita Mureika), one graduate student (Elizabeth Sharp), the CPA convention
manager (Kathy L. Petrin), and the present Chair (Bob Vallerand). Here are some of the issues
we have been working on:
The 2007 Ottawa Convention
The committee has been working hard to make sure that the upcoming convention will be a
success. For instance the following have been done:
• The submission deadline has been extended to November 15.
• A memo has been sent out to all section chairs encouraging them to be proactive in soliciting participation from our most senior scientists and practitioners. We also clearly indicated
the deadlines to come, including the review process, where sections will have two weeks to
send in their reviews. All went very well as only 4 sections did not meet the deadline. In
these cases, the reviews were either performed by the section itself, by someone on the
Convention committee, or by John and Karen at central office.
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• Letters have been sent out to the three local universities University of Ottawa, Carleton
University, and the Université du Québec en Outaouais to encourage regional participation.
• A letter has also been sent out to the CSSBS group to encourage participation.
• A superb color poster with pictures of our three keynote speakers and the titles and summaries of their talks has been prepared and sent out to all psychology departments in the
country for posting.
• An advertisement has been sent out along with the color posters to various international list
serves in an effort to attract international psychologists.
• An email has been sent out through our Student representative on the CPA board (Kelly
Brooke Smith) to all members of the graduate student section informing them of the content
of the convention and encouraging them to participate.
• All of the above advertisements took place at least one month before the abstract submission deadline to allow interested parties to have sufficient time for submission.
• The final numbers outstanding: There were 1738 submissions of which 1620 were accepted. The committee believes that the Montreal record number of 1500 will be pulverized!
Around 1900 attendees are expected.
• Based on these numbers, the rejection rate was about 6.2%. Sections varied greatly with
respect to this rate (from 0% to 17%). Perhaps at some point the Committee may want to
revisit the issue of rejection rates at a later point.
• Dr. Edward L. Deci (Honorary President), Christopher Peterson (Family of Psychology Keynote
speaker), and Arie Kruglanski (Science and Applications Keynote speaker) were asked and
accepted to give presentations.
• A Presidential symposium (two sessions) has been submitted and accepted on “Motivation
in Canada.”
• All invited speakers proposed by the sections have been accepted and will present on recent
developments and applications in psychology. They are Drs. David Zuroff, Chris Argyris,
Richard Walsh-Bowers, Nyla Branscombe, Thomas Achenbach, and David Farrington.
• Additional meeting and hotel rooms were reserved in order to deal with the huge increase in
presentations and expected attendees.
• The social event (cruise on the Rideau Canal followed by dinner at a local restaurant) is completely sold out.
• Preparation continues for the first CPA jam session (rock, pop music) to be held on Thursday
night (after the Presidential reception) under the expert tutelage of Dr. Mark Baldwin (McGill
University). Several members have expressed interest in this event.
The 2008 Halifax Convention
The 2008 Convention will take place at the Halifax Sheraton Harbourfront Hotel between June
12-14. We have already taken some preliminary steps to ensure that the 2008 convention will
also be a success. For instance we have secured the participation of two outstanding keynote
speakers:
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The Family of Psychology Keynote Address will be given by Dr. Hazel Markus from Stanford
University, who will be presenting her work on culture.
The Science and Applications Keynote Address will be presented by Dr. Carol Ryff from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, who will be presenting her research on subjective wellbeing and successful aging.
In addition, Dr. Steven Pinker (a Montrealer currently at Harvard University) will serve as
Honorary President.
The Social Policy Keynote Address, a new Keynote Address that comes as a recommendation
from the Board, will start in Halifax. It will be presented by Dr. Sheri Torjman.
Possibilities regarding social events are being explored, including having a dinner at the
Citadel.
The 2009 Montreal Convention
• The 2009 Convention will be held in Montreal at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
• Once again, hotel rooms will be offered at special rates and we will experience the same
high-quality atmosphere that was present in 2005.
• The Chair of this committee has taken the liberty to initiate contact with the Societé
Quebécoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP) and invite them to hold their annual
convention during our own, in line with what will take place in Ottawa with the North
American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology (NACCJPC) group. NACCJPC will present 255 presentations in Ottawa. The SQRP typically has their convention in March.
However, by contacting them well in advance, it may be possible for them to make adjustments. We are awaiting their answer. At some point, the convention committee may want to
discuss the possibility to contact provincial research associations on a regular basis to
gauge the level of interest in joining us during our annual convention.
The 2010 Winnipeg Convention
• Planning is underway for the 2010 Winnipeg Convention. It will be held at the beautiful Delta
Winnipeg.
The 2011 Toronto Convention
• A tentative agreement has been signed with the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel for the 2011
Convention. Certain minor issues need to be ironed out (e.g., number of rooms that need to
be reserved by attendees). However, things look positive.
This agreement with the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel means that for the first time in a long
period, we now know 5 years ahead of time where the Convention will take place.
Other Issues
• The Terms of Reference of the Convention Committee have been slightly modified to reflect
the changes that have taken place over the past two years.
In summary, the committee has been working very hard to make the Ottawa convention a success while keeping an eye on future conventions. This is the last report that I will prepare for
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this committee. Indeed, the incoming President, Dr. Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, has indicated
that he will take over as Chair of the committee starting after the Ottawa convention. I will
remain on the committee for a year as Past Chair as per the Terms of reference. I’d like to sincerely thank the members of the Convention Committee for their sustained commitment to
making the Convention an event that the Canadian Psychological Association can be proud of.
It has been a privilege to work with them.
Robert J. Vallerand, Chair
EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
COMMITTEE
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Members: Elizabeth Church (Chair), Peter Cornish, Jackie Goodwin, Lee Handy, Peter
Henderson, Edward Johnson, Sharon Kahn, Linda McMullen, Patrick O’Neill, Lynne Robinson
The Education and Training Committee concentrated its activities in number of areas over the
past year including the mentoring program, interprofessional/interdisciplinary education, continuing education, and identifying students’ priorities.
Mentoring program
The aim of this program is to offer new academic faculty an opportunity to be mentored by
more experienced colleagues. Over the past year, the Committee has been working to improve
the visibility and the uptake of the program, and there been an increase in the number of new
faculty requesting mentors.
Interprofessional/interdisciplinary education
The Committee has developed a survey in order to ascertain how interdisciplinary and interprofessional practice and research are being addressed in graduate psychology training in
Canada. The survey will be sent out to graduate psychology programs, internship settings, and
graduate students.
Continuing Education
The review of CE applications continue to be processed at the CPA head office, with the option
that ones that do not clearly fall within the policies of the Standards can be forwarded to the
Committee for further review. Currently there are nineteen CE Providers in good standing (compared to fifteen in 2006), five of which are new providers this year. Over the past year, eighteen individual workshops/programs have also been approved.
Head office receives many requests for CPA to grant CE credits for activities that are not covered by the Standards, such as conferences and programs delivered via audiotape. So far,
these have been dealt with on a case-by-case basis but the Committee is considering how to
develop a broader framework for CE.
The membership database now includes a section to record members’ CE activities. This is an
improvement over the previous databank and will help facilitate data management in the
future.
The Continuing Education Institute was successfully convened in August 2006 in Ottawa. The
2007 Institute is planned for September in Ottawa. Nine workshops will cover such topics as
learning disabilities in adults, the MMPI-2, positive aging, couples therapy, bullying, child
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abuse, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Details will be available shortly.
A new web-based continuing education course, Being An Ethical Psychologist, was launched
this year. It was developed by Dr Carole Sinclair and is based on the Canadian Code of Ethics
for Psychologists (2000).
Student Input
One of the goals of the Education and Training Committee has been to identify and respond to
students’ priorities for education and training, and there has been increased communication
between the Education and Training Committee and Section for Students in Psychology. To that
end, the Education and Training Committee will hold a conversation session, “What Do
Students Want?,” at the 2007 CPA convention.
Many thanks to Committee members for all their work over the past year, and particularly to
Cara Bernard and Karen Cohen for their support.
Elizabeth Church, Chair
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Ethics, Laws and Standards
Ethics
COMMITTEE
ON ETHICS
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Members: Janel Gauthier, Lee Handy, Denise Larsen, Ian Nicholson, Pat O’Neill, Jean Pettifor,
Pierre Ritchie, Carole Sinclair (Chair), Cannie Stark, Tom Strong, and Ivan Zinger
The Committee on Ethics is available to the CPA Board of Directors and Head Office staff to:
(a) respond to questions from and provide consultation to CPA members, other psychology
organizations, and members of the public regarding ethical issues/dilemmas; (b) generate formal opinions on specific questions/issues related to ethics; (c) consider the need for new
guidelines for members; (d) develop new guidelines for approval by the Board; (e) handle complaints against CPA members; and (f) develop and/or provide educational resources for members. Over the past year, activities related to these responsibilities included:
• Responding to specific questions or requests from nineteen different individuals or organizations referred by CPA Head Office.
• Consultations to ten CPA members regarding ethical dilemmas they were experiencing.
• Review and feedback regarding three documents: (i) “Guidelines for Professional Practice for
School Psychologists in Canada;” (ii) “Guidelines for Ethical Psychological Practice with
Women; and (iii) “Qualitative Research in the Context of the TCPS: A Follow-up to the Giving
Voices to the Spectrum Report and a Discussion Paper”.
• Preparation of a draft statement on use of academic titles in applied work, and a draft statement on psychological practice in the context of end-of-life decisions and care. It is anticipated that the draft statements will be available by Summer 2007.
• Preparation of a draft revision of “Ethical Guidelines for Psychologists Providing
Psychological Services via Electronic Media,” based on Member consultation and feedback
in Summer 2006. It is anticipated that the draft revision will be ready for Member consultation by Summer 2007.
• Establishment of a sub-committee to draft “Ethical Guidelines for Supervision in Psychology:
Teaching, Research, Practice and Administration.” Members of the Sub-Committee are Jean
Pettifor (Chair), Michelle McCarron, Greg Schoepp, Cannie Stark, and Don Stewart. It is
anticipated that the draft will be ready for Member consultation by Summer 2007.
• Continued work on the Committee on Ethics webpage for the CPA website. It is anticipated
that the page will be ready by the end of Summer 2007.
• Consideration of three complaints regarding CPA Members. As all the Members involved
were registered with provincial regulatory bodies, the complainants were redirected to the
regulatory bodies.
• In partnership with Captus Press, continuing to provide the Web-based CPA course “Being
an Ethical Psychologist,” which offers 15 CE credits.
http://webclientsit.captus.com/cpa/courses.htm#BEP
• Members of the Committee continuing to provide presentations and workshops on the
Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists, both within and outside Canada.
• Planning an “Ethics Update” symposium for the 2007 Convention in Ottawa.
I would like to express my deep appreciation for the extraordinary dedication, and continued
wisdom and support of the members of the Committee on Ethics, and for the invaluable assistance of the CPA staff in the work of the Committee.
Carole Sinclair, Chair
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Practice
Professional Affairs
PROFESSIONAL
AFFAIRS
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This past year, the Professional Affairs Committee has included Drs. Marcia Barnes, Ester
Cole, Jennifer Frain, Olga Heath, Catherine Lee, Ian Nicholson (Chair) and Ms. Kelly Smith. The
committee has also identified areas of professional psychology that we will be targeting for
membership to increase the diversity, both geographic and by practice area, of the group.
There have been a number of initiatives from CPA Professional Affairs this year. This report will
focus on the largest of these initiatives.
A new series of articles has been started in Psynopsis on “the Business of Psychology”. These
will be a series of articles profiling unique private practice psychology services in Canada. The
focus of the series will not be on large groups of Psychologists working together but those services that have developed in unique and initiative ways. The aim of the series is to educate
Psychologists across the country about innovative models for Psychologists in private practice.
The multi-year three part survey of professional psychology in Canada continues. The first portion, completed last year, focused on psychology in Canadian hospitals. The second part, completed this year, focused on professional psychology in Canadian schools. The final portion,
professional psychology in correctional services in Canada has begun this year. The series
aims to finish data collection this year with the aim of first presenting results at the 2008 convention and writing the material for a series of articles.
There have been an initial series of discussions with the College of Family Physicians of
Canada to begin to explore the potential of a common referral form that could be used across
the country for the referrals to psychology. We are also discussing about a similar model that
might be used for a common report format for sending information back to family physicians in
a manner that would allow them to make most use out of it.
Finally, this past year has found the CPA becoming an active participant as a NonGovernmental Organization (NGO) in the PREVNet Project. PREVNet is a federal government
Centre of Excellence headed by two Psychologists, Dr. Deborah Pepler and Dr. Wendy Craig.
The Centre of Excellence focuses on the development of a network for promoting relationships
and eliminating violence network. It brings together twenty-three researchers from seventeen
Canadian universities and thirty-four NGOs and other partners to promote safe and healthy relationships for Canadian children and youth. The goal of the network is to create social-cultural
change in Canada by reducing the negative use of power and aggression in relationships. CPA
will continue to support this initiative as much as possible in the upcoming months, including
recently presenting on the role of the CPA in supporting anti-bullying campaigns at their Annual
General Meeting.
Ian R. Nicholson, Chair
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Science
Scientific Affairs
COMMITTEE ON
SCIENTIFIC
AFFAIRS
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Members: Christine Chambers, Ken Craig, David Dozois (Chair), Neil Fournier (Student
Representative), Janel Gauthier, Susan Graham, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Jill Jacobson,
Wolfgang Linden, Richard Neufeld and Henny Westra.
The Scientific Affairs Committee has directly or indirectly worked on a number of important
issues with respect to three of our national funding councils. In the fall, Alan Bernstein,
President of CIHR, responded to the International Review Panel’s Report and invited feedback
from the research community. Judging from Bernstein’s report, CPA’s initial feedback (e.g., that
CIHR is too biomedical in its focus and has not lived up to its legislated Parliamentary mandate
to be appropriately inclusive of the behavioural and social sciences) did not have direct impact.
Scientific Affairs continues to reinforce to CIHR the importance of psychological research and
knowledge.
In February, 2007, John Service and Bob Vallerand met with new SSHRC President,
Dr. Chad Gaffield, to learn about his specific priorities and to highlight the significant contributions of psychological science to society and to the advancement of knowledge. Scientific
Affairs was consulted in preparation for this meeting.
Scientific Affairs also provided input on a public policy forum that John Service participated in
to increase visibility for neuroscience. Some of the topics that were discussed pertained to
how neuroscience and cognitive science can better be marketed. It is CPA’s hope that this consultation will help Neuroscience Canada and NSERC to advocate for increased funding.
To ensure that there is equal representation of all areas of science on the Scientific Affairs
Committee, CPA Board approval was sought to alter the terms of reference. The new terms of
reference states that the composition of this committee include at least 3 scientists working
within the NSERC mandate, 3 within the SSHRC mandate and 3 within the CIHR mandate.
One general issue pertaining to all three national granting councils includes the accountability
of research funding and ‘value for money’ regarding the granting councils’ activities. Although it
is important that our grants programs evaluate outputs, we need to be very careful that valueadded is not simply assessed in terms of immediate economic or commercial gain. We must
continue to reinforce to government the importance of basic science in psychology. In their submission to the Standing Committee on Finance, NSERC (2006) appropriately stated that
“Knowledge, created though investments in R&D, is the basis for adding value.”
In September 2006, the Canadian Consortium for Research (CCR) also presented a brief to the
House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. Three recommendations were made: (1)
to create a dedicated federal/provincial transfer mechanism to increase operating funds for
post-secondary education; (2) to increase support for basic research (in particular to increase
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funding for SSHRC to rectify the asymmetry of existing funding allocation); and (3) to invest in
government research infrastructure and human resources related to science. CPA continues to
work with organizations such as the CCR to better meet our objectives in science.
Another important issue related to both science and practice involves the approval of the
Mental Health Commission. One recommendation was to increase funding for CIHR. Scientific
Affairs will continue to advocate that these monies do not become swallowed up entirely by biomedical and pharmaceutical research and that an adequate proportion of these funds be allocated to behavioural health research.
Scientific Affairs also responded to the final consultation document (Qualitative Research) for
the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS): Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, by
highlighting the perspectives of researchers.
We have completed work with the CPA Section on Students in Psychology to develop a
PowerPoint presentation (and brochures) on graduate school and careers in psychology. This
presentation will be available to download from the CPA web site. Scientific Affairs is also working with our student board member (Kelly Smith) and campus representatives to disseminate
this package to campuses across the country.
I would like to thank the members of this committee for their work over the past year.
David J. A. Dozois, Chair
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
AND
AGING
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Members of the Executive Committee of the Section for 2006-07 included Yves Turgeon (Chair)
and Odette Gould (Secretary, Treasurer). The Student Representative’s office was vacant for a
second consecutive year. Dr. Odette Gould, Psychology professor at Mount Allison University,
NB, has replaced Dr. Dastoor as the Section’s Secretary and Treasurer for a second year. The
section has over 60 members this year. This is a significant increase compared to last year.
The section has regained its 2004-2005 membership status. The section has accepted a larger number of abstract’s submissions for the 2007 meeting in Ottawa. This was a significant
increase compare to the 7 submissions that were received last year. Submissions were from
provinces all across Canada and a good number were submitted by student members.
Abstracts were reviewed by Drs. Martine Simard, Corey Mackenzie, Simon Charbonneau, and
Maggie Gibson. The overall quality of abstracts was high and was submitted by members as
well as non members. This year’s section’s program will include a symposium on
Geropsychology training in Canada.
All members are invited to forward their suggestions to the Executive Committee for improving
the section’s vitality in the coming year. This was Yves Turgeon’s third consecutive and last
term as Chair for the section.
Yves Turgeon, Chair
BRAIN
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The chair of the section is Dr. R. St. John who currently serves as the Chair of the section and
as the Secretary/Treasure of the section for 2006-07. The section currently has approximately
60 active members. The numbers have gradually increased over the past year following as the
section begins to re-build and encourage membership from experimental psychologists who are
members of CBBCS. The finances of the section remain stable at about $1500.00. A major
annual theme, as discussed at the last annual meeting, is the possibility of merging Brain and
Behaviour with other sections involved in experimental psychology, notably Perception and
Learning and perhaps Neuropsychology. This would establish a single large section encompassing “Experimental Psychology” within CPA. This issue is on the agenda for the Brain and
Behaviour section business meeting at the CPA 2007 convention in Ottawa. A total of 18
abstracts were submitted to the section for review for the 2007. This relatively low number
reflects a fairly limited interest in using the CPA conference as a means of disseminating new
research in the field of Brain and Behaviour in Canada. The section is working on the re-introduction of a section newsletter, and plans to try and recruit new members. The section continues to
strongly support the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, and encourages members to
submit research and papers to this publication. The section also supports efforts to encourage
links between CPA and other organizations dealing with experimental psychology in Canada.
Bob St. John, Chair
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CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND
ORGANIZATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
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The membership of CSIOP includes approximately 300 full, student and associate members.
Throughout the year CSIOP attempts to communicate widely and regularly to its membership
through our quarterly newsletter, website, list serve announcements, email and the annual CPA
conference at which CSIOP maintains a strong and active I/O program for members. Our most
recent newsletter is available electronically on our website (http://psychology.uwo.ca/csiop/).
In addition, we have an annual CSIOP Executive planning meeting each spring and an Annual
General Meeting for all members at each CPA conference.
The 2006 CPA conference in Calgary was successful for CSIOP, with a strong program, good
attendance, a well-known key note speaker (Dr. Ann Marie Ryan). Two issues were raised during our AGM which have relevance to the broader CPA community. They are briefly described
below and offered for consideration:
The official position of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) on the use of psychological tests dates back to 1987. Recently, the CPA Board of Directors has recommended that the
1999 American Psychological Association (APA) Standards for Educational and Psychological
Testing be used as a reference by CPA members (http://www.cpa.ca/documents/
PsyTest.html). Given the extensive use of testing in the practice of I-O psychology, CSIOP is
moving toward an endorsement of the 4th edition of the Principles for the Validation and Use of
Personnel Selection Procedures (2003) published by the Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology (division 14 of the APA).
In light of increasing operating costs, CSIOP is considering a small increase in fee for regular
member (from $18.00 to $23.00).
CSIOP is looking forward with anticipation to the 2007 CPA conference in Ottawa confirmed
are:
• an invited keynote presentation titled, “Work-Life Balance; Rhetoric Versus Reality” presented by Linda Duxbury.
• an invited symposium on “Self-Determination Theory” presented by Dr. Ed Deci (University of
Rochester), Marylene Gagné (Concordia University) and John Meyer (University of Western
Ontario).
• An applied workshop on providing expert testimony (Anuradha Chawla).
• A variety of posters, symposia and talks by students, academics and practitioners.
Stéphane Brutus, Chair
CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
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Section Executive
The 2006-2007 Executive Committee consisted of Catherine Lee (Past-Chair), Christine Purdon
(Chair), Deborah Dobson (Chair-Elect), John Pearce (Secretary-Treasurer), Andrew Ryder
(Member-at-Large), and Andrea Ashbaugh (Student Representative). The Executive met in person during the 2006 conference, held a full-day meeting in January, 2007, and held teleconferences in the fall and the spring. In between meeting times, the executive was in touch almost
daily through e-mail and phone.
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Membership
The Section maintains a healthy membership with 497 members and 228 student members
(total of 725) which represents sustained growth over recent years.
Convention Program
The Section is contributing a full program to the 2007 convention. In addition to general programming with several poster sessions, 6 workshops, 7 theory review sessions, and 12 symposia, the Clinical Section is sponsoring: (1) a CPA-invited presentation by David Zuroff on
treatment of depression; (2) a pre-convention workshop by John Walker on treatment of the
anxious child; (3) a master-clinician workshop by Martin Antony on treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder; (4) a public lecture by Martin Antony on anxiety problems; 5) a workshop entitled “Enhancing Care of Older Adults in Your Clinical Practice”, led by Maggie Gibson, a workshop on “Balancing Work and Personal Life in Academe”, led by Catherine Lee, a workshop
entitled “I’ve Got My Clinical Psychology Ph.D…So Now What?”, led by Peter Bradley; (5) a
symposium entitled “Beyond Trauma: The Role of Individual Differences in the Development of
Post-Traumatic Stress”, convened by Steve Taylor, and a symposium entitled “The Canadian
Anxiety Disorders Treatment Guidelines Initiative: An Interactive Symposium”, convened by
Richard Swinson.
Awards
In recognition of his important contribution to Canadian clinical psychology, the Section will
award Fellow status to Martin Antony. David Zuroff and Steve Taylor were awarded Fellow status last year and will receive their awards at the convention in Ottawa 2007. Sarah
Bellefontaine from the University of Ottawa will receive the Clinical Section Ken Bowers Award
for Student Research.
Communications
The Section’s biannual newsletter, Canadian Clinical Psychologist, was published under the
editorship of Margo Watt and Jessey Bernstein, who are implementing a number of initiatives,
including profiling of advocates of evidence-based practice, a feature on communicating with
the media, and profiling of Student members who are involved in unique projects relevant to
clinical psychology. The Section website was maintained by the Executive with the assistance
of Dan Berman. The clinical listserve continues to be used judiciously for section business and
for announcements of employment opportunities. We plan to work with CPA head office to
develop ways of reducing the amount of spam the listserve receives.
Advocacy
The Section’s strategic planning continues to focus on advocacy. As identified in the 2005 survey and confirmed at the 2005 ABM the main themes we have pursued are advocacy and taking a more proactive stance on evidence-based practice. The development and promotion of
psychology fact sheets was coordinated this year by Andrew Ryder who has overseen the publicizing of the factsheets to national, provincial, and regional groups, and who has spearheaded
the effort to develop formal policies and guidelines for the development and maintenance of
factsheets.
Supporting Students
The Section supports student involvement by having a student representative on the executive.
This year, we are developing ways of supporting students financially by hiring them to assist
with administrative tasks of the executive. The Section supports student involvement in the
CPA annual conference by recognizing the most meritorious submission through the Clinical
Section Ken Bowers Award for Student Research, which is accompanied by $750. This year, we
have introduced three student travel awards for the most meritorious poster submissions as
judged by the students themselves, with monetary awards of $500, $200 and $200 each. The
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Section also offers free attendance at a pre-convention workshop to a student campus representative and the Section Student Representative who assist in registration. The Section is supporting students’ professional development through the development of a Student Grant program to
assist students in financing clinical workshops in their academic settings. Finally, Student members who are involved in unique projects relevant to clinical psychology will be profiled in the
newsletter.
Christine Purdon, Chair
COMMUNITY
PSYCHOLOGY
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Community Psychology Section enjoyed a relatively stable year, despite a change in the overall
membership size and composition. Membership in the section saw a significant decrease from
2006 to 63 members from 83. Although membership has decreased, this year’s CPA convention
programme saw an increase in the total number of presentations submitted and accepted,
including a substantial increase in oral presentations from previous conventions held over the
past 3 years.
The Section’s electronic newsletter, CPNews, has continued distribution on a periodic basis,
with 7 issues having been sent to members in the past year. This newsletter is also re-distributed by members to those outside of the Section through Canadian community psychology lists
like CP-LOOP, providing greater exposure to the Section and CPA.
The Section has continued to explore collaborative opportunities with the Society for Community
Research & Action, the sister organization to Section 3 within the American Psychological
Association, and other sections within CPA. These potential collaborative ventures include cosponsorship of events and integrated planning and promotion activities.
The financial picture for the Section is positive. Despite the decrease in membership numbers,
the Section is in the best financial health since the current leadership became engaged. The
financial health is attributed to a number of causes, including a 2007 increase in section fees
and no substantial financial commitments made over the course of the year relative to previous
terms.
The Section’s leadership is currently in flux as Dr. Cameron Norman, the current Chair and
Treasurer, is stepping down. A search for a new leadership has been ongoing since the CPA
meetings in Calgary (2006) and a request for nominations has been issued to the section membership for the upcoming Ottawa convention. Dr. Norman will remain as a provisional Chair and
Treasurer until a replacement has been elected or recruited.
Cameron D. Norman, Chair
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The current membership is 112 members, including 63 student members. The Section
Executive includes Dr. Vivian Lalande (Chair), Dr. Jennifer Nicol (Past Chair), Dr. Shelly RussellMayhew (Secretary-Treasurer) and Robin Cox (Student Representative). Dr. Colleen Haney is
the Coordinator of Student Awards and Mr. Mike Huston is the Newsletter Editor. Dr. Colleen
Haney and Dr. Derek Truscott adjudicated the 2006 student awards. We also had a large group
of members who kindly adjudicated the conference paper proposals this year.
A committee was struck at the 2006 CPA conference to work on the criteria for accreditation
for the Counselling Psychology Section. Members include Derek Truscott (Chair), Kevin
Alderson, Richard Young, Ada Sinacore, Denise Larsen, Greg Harris, Marla Buchanan, William
Welton, Steve Knish, Sharon Cairns, and Jim Evans. The mandate of this committee is to
revise the current Accreditation Standards and Procedures for Doctoral Programmes in
Internships in Professional Psychology. Another committee was also formed with the mandate
to develop a Canadian definition of the term “counselling psychology”. This committee consists
of Rob Bedi and Beth Haverkamp (co-chairs), Derek Truscott, Romeo Beatch, James Loh,
Douglas Cave, Greg Harris, and Jose Domene.
A number of student awards were given at the 2006 conference. Karen C. Kranz (University of
British Columbia) received an award for her dissertation: Living outside the box: Lesbian couples with children conceived through the use of anonymous donor insemination . Vivian
Dzedzora (University of British Columbia) received an award for her Master’s thesis: A study of
a group treatment for men and women diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. The doctoral conference poster was won by Holly McLean (University of British Columbia): A Narrative
Study of the Spouses of Soldiers Healing from Post-Traumatic Stress. Awards for outstanding
Master’s Conference Posters were given to Ronaye Coulson (University of Calgary) Resilient
Self-Talk: Is Bouncing Back from Adversity Related to How We Talk to Ourselves?; Elaine
Greidanus (University of Alberta) Finding Help on the Internet; Summerlee Samuels (UBC)
Transferable Life Skills Learned Through Sport Participation; and Sean Latimer (Trinity Western
University) Continuous Quality Improvement in Child and Youth Mental Health.
The counselling psychology section programme at the 2007 conference will include a Section
Keynote speaker, Dr. David Paré, who is speaking on the topic Yours, Mine, and Ours: Dialogue
and Reflexivity in Counselling Research. There is also a sponsored symposium on the topic of
Innovative Approaches to Eating Disorders: Theory, Research and Practice offered by Shelly
Russell-Mayhew (Moderator) and the following panel members Dr. Christine Courbasson, Dr.
Gail McVey, and Dr. Lindsay McLaren. An additional number of counselling papers and posters
at this year’s conference will provide an interesting programme overall.
Vivian Lalande, Chair
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE
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Membership
The 2006-2007 Executive are now Jeremy Mills (Chair), Daryl Kroner (Past Chair), Karl Hanson
(Secretary/Treasurer), Tanya Rugge and Chantal Langevin (Co-Editors of Crime Scene), Joseph
Camilleri (Student Representative), Stephen Wormith (Director-at-Large), Andrew Starzomski
(Director-at-Large Clinical & Training), Dorothy Cotton (Director-at-Large Police Psychology),
Joanna Pozzulo (Director-at-Large Psychology in the Courts), Andrew Harris (Director-at-Large
Continuing Education), Guy Bourgon (Director-at-Large Conference Programme), and Leslie
Helmus (Membership Coordinator).
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The Section is currently partnering with the Criminal Justice Section of Division 18 (APA) in
hosting the first North American Correctional and Criminal Justice Psychology Conference (NACCJPC) to run concurrently this year with CPA’s annual convention. The NACCJPC Steering
Committee Chair is Dr. Jeremy Mills, and members of the Steering Committee are Dr. Robert
Morgan, Dr. Daryl Kroner, and Dr. Steve Norton. Invited speakers and participants are from all
over North America as well as international points. The NACCJPC has 6 pre-conference workshops to be followed by three days of presentations running concurrently in four venues (with
the exception of the plenary sessions). Over 200 submissions were made to the conference
and at present the organizers anticipant over 300 attendees - the largest gathering of its kind.
A ‘Conference Proceedings’ will be edited and distributed following the conference.
The Police Psychology group now has a list of 90 members who are affiliated with our Section
and they are hosting a conversation hour at this year’s NACCJPC. The Clinical Training group
organized a collaborative effort with Drs. Robert Morgan (Texas Tech), Phil Magaletta (US
Bureau of Prisons), Steve Wormith (University of Saskatchewan) in developing a symposium on
Clinical Training for NACCJPC; this symposium will review clinical training issues and needs
from the perspectives of students, university training programs, district licensing boards, and
national training advocacy groups. Many thanks to our co-Editors of Crime Scene who have produced two large newsletters over the past year. These semi-annual updates to our membership
have received rave reviews from far and wide. I trust that many of our membership will be in
attendance at the NACCJPC and I look forward to seeing you there.
Jeremy Mills, Chair
DISASTER
AND TRAUMA
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Section Executive
The executive committee consists of Regan Shercliffe (past-chair), Coleen Haney (SecretaryTreasurer), R. Nicholas Carleton (Student Representative), and Anne Dietrich (Chair). The executive had one in-person meeting and ongoing email correspondence throughout the year. We
currently have 87 non student members and 29 student members.
Convention Program
We have arranged for Dr. Steven Taylor as our invited speaker for the 2007 convention, and we
plan on having Dr. John Briere, an internationally known expert in the field of trauma as a
speaker for 2008, possibly to give a plenary address. We received several submissions for the
convention this year, which were reviewed by Dr. Bill Koch and Dr. Melanie O’Neill. The majority
were accepted, and include workshops, symposia, and posters. The quality of the submissions
was generally very good.
Communications
We have published our annual newsletter, Disaster and Trauma Times of Canada, which is
available on the section website. Our student representative, Nick Carleton, has done an outstanding job putting together the latest issue of the newsletter. One of the goals of our section
is to put together a small committee in order to improve the section website.
Student Awards
There were three student awards at the 2006 convention. The recipients were Jodi Kreswaty
(Calgary); Becky Stewart (Trinity Western); and Robin Cox (UBC). We will be providing student
awards again at the 2007 convention and will hold a small reception in which the students will
receive the awards.
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Annual Business Meeting
We have several items on the agenda for the 2007 section business meeting. The key items
include 1) extending the term of the Chair from one year to two years for continuity; 2) development of a website committee and ideas for content; and 3) a proposal to change the name of
the section to Traumatic Stress and Disaster section. The reasoning behind the latter is to
increase membership and widen the focus of the section. As it stands, the focus appears to be
mainly on Disaster Trauma, and there is no clear emphasis on other forms of traumatic events.
Changing the name of the section will hopefully draw persons who are interested in domestic
violence, childhood abuse trauma, combat trauma, and so forth.
Anne Dietrich, Chair
ENVIRONMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY
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Executive Committee
The section executive for 2006-2007 are: Frederick M.E. Grouzet (Chair), Luc G. Pelletier (Past
President) and Mark L. Sandilands (Treasurer). There are also two seats for members-at-large
in our Section: Danielle Patry is Editor of our Liaison Newsletter and Simon Beaudry is our
Section Webmaster.
Student Awards
Again this year, we will be giving a prize to reward the best poster presentation by a student at
the annual conference. All students, notwithstanding the section to which they belong, can participate and hope to receive a $100 prize for their contribution to the advancement of knowledge in environmental psychology.
Membership
Currently, we have a total of 57 members, 18 of whom are students.
Annual Convention Program
The section’s annual convention program this year in Ottawa has an Invited Speaker, Dr.
Jennifer A. Veitch, who will deliver her talk entitled “ Psychology, Buildings, Health, and Wellbeing: Try Interdisciplinary Research for Best Results.”
Section Newsletter and Website
The Section published a Winter 2007 issue of its Section Newsletter. The Newsletter contains
information on elections, announces future conferences and discusses specific articles and
chosen articles. In addition, the Section website is always being upgraded and provides updated content and supplementary information.
Frederick Grouzet, Chair
HEALTH
PSYCHOLOGY
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The section executive is comprised of the Tavis Campbell (Chair; Calgary), Sherry Stewart (pastChair & Treasurer, Dalhousie), Kim Lavoie (Secretary; UQAM) and Linda Carlson
(Communications; Calgary). There are two student representatives (Brenda Key and Laura Van
Wielingen; Calgary). The section program for 2007 continues to build on a theme of recognizing
excellence in Health Psychology research in Canada by adding a new annual Young Investigator
Award that will be given to Christine Chambers (Dalhousie), at the meeting in Ottawa. In addi-
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tion, the annual Ronald Melzack prize will be awarded to one of ten students who received the
highest rankings for their conference submissions. Last year, the section reintroduced a biannual newsletter that will continue to be published and distributed to the members in the Fall
and Spring of 2007 and 2008. The Executive met in person at the CPA convention in Calgary
(2006) and two telephone meetings have also occurred over the past year.
Tavis Campbell, Chair
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
OF
PSYCHOLOGY
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Section Executive
Thomas Teo (Chair), Angelina Baydala (Chair-Elect), Angela Febbraro (Past-Chair), Jason
Goertzen (Secretary-Treasurer), Christopher Peet (Program Co-Chair). Archivist: Not elected.
Membership
Currently, we have a total of 63 members, 14 of whom are students.
Annual Convention
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Walsh-Bowers, who has been inducted into CPA
fellow status this year, will be the Section Keynote speaker at the 2007 annual convention. His
talk is entitled: Taking the ethical principle of social responsibility seriously: A socio-political
perspective on psychologists’ social practices.
In addition, Section programming for the 2007 convention will include theoretical and historical
symposia, paper and conversation sessions on Tradition & subjectivity; Selfhood & agency;
Psychotherapy as a human science Debating the unity of psychology; The ecological approach
to social psychology; Science, fiction, and fame; Biographies; Ethics; Gender and race; Gender
issues in applied psychology and Issues in professionalization. Recognizing the birth of the
section 20 years ago, there will be a symposium on the History & Philosophy Section at Age
20.
The Mary J. Wright Award is awarded by the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section to the
best student paper at the annual convention. In 2006, two winners were chosen: Jennifer
Bazar, York University, for her paper on “Patients, Dr. Workman and Life at the Provincial
Lunatic Asylum” and Judith Misbach, University of Calgary, for her paper entitled The Gendered
Construction of Melancholia in Nineteenth Century Psychiatry.
History & Philosophy of Psychology (HPP) Bulletin: The HPP Bulletin serves as a section journal
and newsletter for the publication of papers, discussions, reviews, and news. The HPP Bulletin
is sent to all members of the History & Philosophy section, to Chairs of other CPA sections,
and to various archives and libraries.
At the last meeting the History & Philosophy of Psychology Section voted to amend our Section
by-laws to include the position of Section Archivist as an official member of its Executive, with
full voting rights. This position will be elected at the meeting in Ottawa.
Thomas Teo, Chair
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INTERNATIONAL
AND CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Section Executive
Saba Safdar (Chair), Randal Tonks (Chair-elect), Floyd Rudmin (Past Chair), Valery Chirkov
(Treasurer), Randal Tonks (Section Webmaster), Andrew Ryder (Program Chair), Jim Cresswell
(Student Rep.)
Membership
Currently there are a total of 215 members. The current membership includes 61 regular members and 154 student members.
Budget
The section budget remains healthy with a balance of $3,280.64.
Section Website
Randal Tonks is section webmaster who has maintained the website in the last several years
and has updated the information routinely. It can be accessed through CPA homepage
www.cpa.ca or by going directly to http://tonks.disted.camosun.bc.ca/iccp/. The websites consists of information about membership, student awards, members of executive committee,
minutes from section business meetings, and other cultural and teaching resources.
A short description about the section was submitted for publication to Psynopsis by the Chair
(Safdar) in August 2006. The description consisted of information about the goals of ICCP, the
type of research the members do, and the benefits of joining ICCP. This memorandum is also
posted on the section website.
Convention
Last year’s section program at the annual convention (Calgary, 2006) included a CPA Invited
Address by Dr. John Berry and a Section Keynote Speaker by J.P. Doss. The conference was a
great success in terms of participation. We had two conversation sessions, nine symposia
(including two student symposia and two inter-section symposia), two theory reviews, and 18
poster presentations, with a total of 64 presenters.
A note of concern: One of the presenters who was expected to deliver a talk at a symposium
Chaired by Dr. Warren Thorngate, Carlton University, did not attend the conference due to being
denied entry visa to Canada from Iran. Dr. Hatami who is a faculty member at Psychology
Department at the University of Tehran applied for visa in Tehran, Iran in late April 2006 and
was rejected on May 10th, 2006. This issue was brought to Dr. Janel Gauthier’s attention at a
meeting in Calgary.
The section program for the Ottawa ’07 looks very promising. Dr. Thomas Achenbach is the
CPA Invited Speaker and will also conduct a workshop. The title of his address is: Top-down
and Bottom-up Assessment of Psychopathology and Adaptive Functioning Across the Life Span:
Multi-cultural, Multi-informant, and Multi-Taxonomic Facets.
Student Awards
In recognition of the rich contributions of our student members, the section selects best student presentations based on content, methodology, organization, and overall presentation and
delivery. This is the second annual student award named after two social psychologists: John
Berry and Frances Aboud.
In 2006, the recipient of John Berry Paper Presentation Award was Lori Mac from University of
Calgary. The title of her presentation was A qualitative inquiry into the experiences of Chinese
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immigrant children in Canada: Adult reflections on childhood experiences. The recipient of
Frances Aboud Poster Presentation Award was Donald Watanabe from Concordia University.
The title of his presentation was Acculturation and social adjustment: Are there unique benefits
to integration?
Overall Summary
With a strong core-membership and dynamic student contributions, the section has remained
robust. Our convention program including student participation remains very rich. Our Web
access keeps us all connected and actively involved in the field of the International and Crosscultural Psychology.
Saba Safdar, Chair
PSYCHOANALYSIS
AND PSYCHODYNAMIC
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There have been a few notable changes made to the Section this past year that were largely
initiated from suggestions made at our 2006 business meeting held in Calgary. First of all we
changed our name to reflect a more inclusive membership of practitioners and theoreticians
who did not necessarily identify themselves as psychoanalytic but rather as generically psychodynamic in orientation. We hope to attract more members and presenters for future conferences due to the change.
The second major initiative was advanced by Dr. Paul Jerry who graciously developed a section
newsletter that is posted online at our section website. He did a fantastic job and he deserves
our gratitude. It is both informative and aesthetically pleasing. We welcome any contributions
from our membership or about any topic and about any events that would be of interest to our
section.
The third big news item is that Dr. Scott Bishop has been named Chair-Elect of the section and
will take over my duties in 2008 for his two-year term. It is time for me to pass the torch and
get new blood into the section that will enrich its growth and development. Scott is perfect to
take over and I have great faith he will make the section stronger and more vibrant. He is a
clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Toronto, a graduate of the Toronto
Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and is on the Executive of its Society. He also holds
an academic appointment in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. His specializations and talents are multifaceted, largely focusing on trauma and health populations, was the past clinical
director of the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (formerly known as the Clarke Institute)
in Toronto, and he has several empirical and theoretical publications.
Based upon suggestions raised by Dr. Ian Nicholson, Practice Leader of the CPA, and others at
last year’s business meeting, I initiated discussions with the editor of Canadian Psychology, on
research into contemporary psychoanalysis, publication of this research and about the scope
and definition of evidence-based practice. It is a goal of the section to see more publication of
articles on contemporary psychoanalysis within Canadian psychology journals.
It is also a goal to see the inclusion of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic treatment orientations among those reviewed and proposed for clinical conditions in CPA Fact Sheets. Dr.
Bishop contacted the CPA Executive Director, Dr. John Service, and Associate Executive
Director, Dr. Karen Cohen asking for clarification and review of the process through which Fact
Sheets are accepted and posted. These discussions have led to a proposed change in process
that will be reviewed by the CPA Board of Directors when it meets in June. We thank the CPA
for their receptive and helpful response to our concerns. As part of the 2007 CPA Continuing
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Education Institute, one of the nine workshops offered during this event will be entitled Practice
developments in psychotherapy: What works for whom and when. One of the three psychotherapies surveyed will be psychodynamic ones. .
Dr. Nancy McWilliams from Rutgers University, and who is the President of the Division of
Psychoanalysis of the APA, will be the Otto Weininger Award for Psychoanalytic Achievement
recipient this year in Ottawa and deliver the Keynote Address. Dr. Paul Verhaeghe is also coming from Belgium to receive a Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship for his book, On
Being Normal and Other Disorders. Both of these people are highly internationally acclaimed
scholars. Dr. Muriel Dimen is also being given a Goethe Award for her book, Sexuality,
Intimacy, Power.
The talks and workshops organized by our section continue to get better and better each year
as we gain momentum and more support. Mrs. Sylvia Singer Weininger continues to graciously
support our section by making a generous yearly endowment for the Weininger Award and
Keynote speaker, which allows us to honor and attract the best in our field. This year’s section
fellow awards go to Drs. Michelle Flax, Ph.D., Hazel Ipp, Ph.D., and Judi Kobrick, Ph.D.
Jon Mills, Chair
PSYCHOLOGISTS
IN EDUCATION
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Under the able leadership of Past-Chair and continuing Board member, Juanita Mureika, a
Section task force has been hard at work completing Guidelines for Professional Practice for
School Psychologists in Canada. This document, a revision of the N.B. Department of
Education’s Guidelines for Professional Practice for School Psychology (2001), has been
approved by the CPA Board of Directors.
The Psychologists in Education Section has maintained its plateau in growth. The current membership is 212, including 24 student affiliates. However, we once again expect our presence at
this year’s Convention to be notable. We will have presentations in just about every available
time slot, and at times will be competing against ourselves for interested attendees. We are
looking forward to the keynote speech, Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports: A
School-Wide Approach to Discipline That Works, to be given by our own Juanita Mureika. We
hope that attendance will be commensurate with the presentations.
There continues to be a close association between the Section and the Canadian Association
of School Psychologists. This year, CASP has scheduled its Annual General Meeting and
Executive Meeting to be held in conjunction with the CPA Convention. We do maintain a liaison
with CCPPP. This relationship has become increasingly important now that the CPA
Accreditation Panel will accredit doctoral programs and internships in school psychology.
Section members have been able to share ideas and concerns via ongoing conversations
through our e-mail list, as well as being informed of CPA media requests and activity/information updates in the same manner.
Yvonne Martinez continues on as the Student Representative in the Section executive. We
hope that her presence will again provide the needed impetus to implement our Student
Awards policy. A newcomer to the executive, Bill McKee, has modestly hosted a CPA accreditation site visitor workshop at UBC this past winter.
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Theresa Bianco deserves special recognition for a superb job done as one of the Section
reviewers, as we cope with the increased number of French language proposals submitted for
this year’s convention. Last but not least, I’d like to thank the rest of the Section executive for
their energy and support throughout the past year. To Juanita Mureika, Don Saklofske, and
Gina Harrison: Thanks and on to Ottawa!
Joseph Snyder, Chair
PHYCHOLOGISTS
IN THE MILITARY
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The Psychology in the Military section is comprised of academics, practitioners, and psychologists who serve in the military, either as uniformed officers or as civilians. The focus that
unites the section is an interest in the role of psychology in military affairs.
The academic submissions for the 2006 conference in Calgary were fewer in number than for
conferences in previous years. Two posters were submitted, but no papers and no symposia.
One poster explored attitudes toward employment equity and gender integration, while the second poster focused on socialization, self-selection, and the development of social dominance
orientation and right-wing authoritarianism. As in previous years, there was a Friday night social
event co-hosted by the military section and the Canadian Society of Industrial / Organizational
Psychology.
Current committee members include Dr. Peter Bradley (chair), Dr. Danielle Charbonneau (secretary) and Captain Julie Bélanger (treasurer). All three members are faculty of the Military
Psychology and Leadership Department at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston,
Ontario.
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Executive
The Executive consisted of Melanie Morrison (University of Saskatchewan) and J. Roy Gillis
(OISE, University of Toronto) as Co-Chairs, Sarah Hill (Department of National Defense) as
Listserv Coordinator, Melanie Morrison as Treasurer, and Anomi Bearden (University of
Calgary), Bruce Whitehead (Red Deer College), and Jacquii Cohen (University of New Brunswick)
as Student Representatives. We now have Karen Blair (Queen’s University) as Website
Coordinator and Daragh McDermott (National University of Ireland Galway) assisting with the
Listserv Coordinator activities.
Conference
The Annual Conference in Calgary was well-attended by our section members and we had 6
symposium presentations made by faculty and student members of SOGII. The Section
Executive also enjoyed a wonderful turnout of faculty and students showcasing their research
in poster format during the Annual poster session. Abstracts were reviewed by Todd Morrison
(National University of Ireland Galway) and five additional, anonymous reviewers. For the first
time, our Section was able to award monetary prizes to two students for best paper and best
poster presentations. Specifically, the Henry Minton Award for Excellence in Research
($100.00; paper presentation) and the Student Award for Excellence in Research ($50.00;
poster presentation) were made available. We are pleased to announce that we will continue to
recognize students and their research achievements in all future annual conferences.
Membership
Our membership continues to grow each year, and we hope to continue to attract researchers,
theoreticians, and practitioners to our Section. As well, we hope that the number of students
interested in the Section will remain high, and that with each passing year, additional people
will become involved as we work to promote social change and address injustices. We are a
Section that is evolving and we are proud of what we have accomplished thus far. Should you
be interested in joining the section, the fees are modest ($15.00 for non-students; $5.00 for
students) and we encourage active participation from our membership.
Melanie Morrison, Co-Chair
SOCIAL
AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY
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The section continues to grow in number and influence. We now have 149 members (95 faculty, 52 students, and 2 complimentary) most of which we expect to see in Ottawa for the CPA
conference in June. The success and influence of the section is apparent from 1) our membership base, 2) the growing commitment from faculty and students alike to see CPA-SP take a
prominent position in the academic lives of Canadian social and personality psychologist (e.g.,
the active use of our new website and existing listserv), 3) the speakers we were able to
attract to our annual pre-conference as well as the keynote speakers, and 4) the number of
people who have already indicated that they plan to attend both the pre-conference and the
CPA conference in Ottawa.
To be frank, the line-up of speakers for the pre-conference is superb ranging from new young
stars of the field to established, highly respected scholars. These speakers are: Michael
Ashton (Brock University), Alison Chasteen (University of Toronto), Debbie Moskowitz (McGill
University), Del Paulhus (University of British Columbia), Luc Pelletier (University of Ottawa),
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Steven Spencer (University of Waterloo). In total, we expect around 100 people to attend the
preconference. The pre-conference will also feature a lunch time “Swap and Talk session”
where current research by faculty and students will be presented. The end of the pre-conference will also include a round table to discuss the future of programming in the SocialPersonality section of CPA.
The success of the section is also apparent in the number of symposia sessions (6) and oral
paper sessions (3) at the 07 CPA conferences. As well, we were able to attract one of the top
intergroup researchers, Nyla Branscombe (University of Kansas), to be the section’s keynote
speaker. Nyla is originally from Canada, but has not attended a CPA conference in well over a
decade. Part of her decision to accept our invitation was the growth of the section and the
prominence it is gaining in our field of study. You don’t have to look any farther than the pre-conference and that most of the conference keynotes (Edward Deci, Christopher Peterson, Arie W.
Kruglanski) are trained social or personality psychologists to see the vibrancy of social and personality psychology and this is reflected in our country in general and our section specifically.
Although our members are spread out over this vast country, we have been able to create an
intimate community through our active listserv maintained by Dr. John Ellard (University of
Calgary) and our new website (http://web.mac.com/alitvack/iWeb/CPA-SP_AREA_EN/
Welcome.html) created by our graduate student representative Aubrey Litvack (York University).
To help grow our section through the recognition of top student research, we have two awards.
The first award, the Brendan Gale Rule Award, is given to the best graduate submission of the
conference. The second award, the Kenneth L. Dion Award, is given to the best undergraduate
submission. Last year, we revived the dormant section fellow honour (awarded to Dr. Beverly
Fehr). We plan to select the section’s next fellow at the section meeting during the Ottawa conference.
Taking cues from the past, CPA-SP looks toward a bright future.
Michael Wohl, Chair
SPORT
AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
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Summary of Activities
Conferences
June 2006- 1st meeting with membership; met CPA board/sections
October/November 2006
• Sent out Call for abstracts & notice of conference via email and in person at other
conferences
• Reviewed abstracts for 2007 conference; 10 members volunteered for reviews.
• Developed a collaborative Conversation Hour for 2007 conference regarding sport
psychology programming.
Current: preparing business meeting items for 2007 conference & preparing potential social
events for sport psychology members presenting, as well as general membership.
Administration
Website- developed own WebPages to be included via the CPA website. Our communications
officer Andrew Ling is managing this; some pages are still being developed.
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Communication- Intermittent email communications about recent developments with the
Interest Group; members were also invited to participate on committees; a number of members
expressed concerns around the practice of sport psychology, as well as their continued support
towards section development.
Hope to have a formal newsletter composed, in addition to the usual email updates; a couple
members expressed interest in volunteering for this.
Development- Interest group has been included on the 2007 membership forms and via on-line
conference abstract submission; new members have expressed interest with group’s increasing awareness; formal Section application submitted for February 2007 CPA Board meeting.
Governance- composed an interim board to address business matters on an as-needed basis;
several members expressed interest in being a part of this; A call for formal executive positions
was made with the intentions of securing positions by the 2007 conference; By-laws are in
process, awaiting section status approval before submission.
Major Ongoing Projects
Programming/training/competency: We are working towards developing criteria and recommendations for sport psychology practitioners following the psychology-track route for eventually
becoming psychologists or psychology associates with a sub-specialty in sport psychology. To
this end we are generating dialogue from members and via the CPA conference to recommend
additional coursework and/or training to meet competencies for the sport psychology area in
conjunction with the usual standard licensing for regulated psychology members. Our conversation hour at the CPA conference will examine this and issues surrounding sport psychology
practitioners. Several institutions have expressed interest in the inclusion of a program or certificate program for sport psychology. We would like to formalize a program guideline for institutions and communicate these recommendations with individuals wanting to become sport psychologists.
CSPA/CPA alliance: We have been working hard to build bridges with an emerging Canadian
Sport Psychology Association that governs individuals wishing to work with athletes on various
mental training capacities. This group includes a large portion of kinesiologists but does
include some psychologists as well. We feel it is necessary to maintain good relationships with
all practitioners in our area, and attempt to work collaboratively to offer the different routes to
working with athletes within the wide scope of work that sport psychology offers. Our group will
continue to focus on psychology-track practitioners who are following the route to becoming
licensed professionals, while the CSPA is focusing on competencies for those not wishing to
become psychologists but may still work within the limitations of teaching basic skills applicable to sport. Our group has made efforts to keep the CSPA apprised of our activities and
attempt to generate collaborate projects that will benefit both the practitioners and wider community.
Regulations/Ethical issues: We have been re-introduced to the long-term contentious issue
regarding the communication of skills and credentials by non-psychologists. We have attempted to address the issue by gathering more information from a variety of sources: the regulators
for psychology, mainstream psychologists, colleagues, and non-psychologists, but have yet to
find a pro-active solution to ensuring that consumers are not harmed by any misrepresentation.
Currently, only a reactive solution has been suggested to us, reporting at each incident, but
this has not resolved a more than 30 year issue nor does it support alliances with qualified
non-psychology professionals. We have also encouraged the CSPA to join us in a collaborative
educational project that educates consumers in the sporting arena about the differences
between psychologists and non-psychologists, in addition to educating further on the scope of
practice for various levels of practitioners. We are waiting for a commitment but will most likely
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proceed independently to ensure that consumers are aware of all the services provided by
those working in the area of sport psychology.
In the future, and dependent on funds via membership and/or other sources, we would like to
provide awards and recognitions for the work of many of our esteemed colleagues in Canada.
We also hope to contribute to the conference activities in the future by suggesting keynotes
and/or special speakers, the fun run, social events, and encouraging additional submissions in
a number of different formats. With continued interest in members working on various committees, many of these items will be more easily managed.
Tricia Orzeck, Chair
STUDENTS
IN
PSYCHOLOGY
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The Section for Students has had a busy and productive year. We have a great executive team
consisting of: Elizabeth Stanford (Past Chair), Kelly Smith (Chair), Lindsay Uman (Chair-Elect),
Philip Johnson (Campus Representative Coordinator), Pamela Seeds (Secretary-Treasurer), and
Roxanne Sterniczuk (Undergraduate Representative). Kelly Hayton has provided invaluable support as our webpage and listserv manager. During the course of the year, we have a Spring and
Fall teleconference to keep us organized and on-track. We also enjoy connecting every year at
the annual conference.
The Section for Students currently has 1200+ members.
Over the course of the year, the Executive have been involved with several initiatives, including:
• We have an active listserv of over 1,100 student members.
• We have an informative and current webpage. This year we have been given the opportunity
to make web changes ourselves; this has been very convenient.
• We have distributed a list of all the CPA awards offered for students. This list has been posted to the listserv and the website. We also distributed information regarding the CPA
Foundation Student Research Grants. This information has been posted to the listserv and
website.
• We distributed a list of Psychology Resources for Psychology Month. This list has been posted to the listserv and the website.
• The Campus Representative program is being effectively managed and updated regularly. We
currently have Graduate and/or Undergraduate Campus Representatives on over 30
University and College campuses across the country. We also have a Campus
Representative listserv.
• For the first time at this year’s Convention, a Campus Representative meeting will be hosted. This meeting was initiated by Dr. John Service and Dan Berman, and will be a great
chance for Campus Representatives to meet each other, CPA staff, and executive members
of the Section face-to face.
• We have started to recruit Friends of CPA (i.e., Faculty Representatives). In this initiative, Dr.
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Chair of the Membership Committee, has been very helpful and
supportive.
• This was the first year that a Student Representative sat on the CPA Board of Directors. We
are very excited about this position! An election was held this year for the ChairElect/Student Board Position. All student members were allowed to vote, and votes were
collected via email by Kelly Hayton.
• We have continued to recruit student submissions for Psynopsis. This year we had five stu-
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interest to students (e.g., tips for undergraduates on handling graduate school interviews).
We wrote a response to a Psynopsis article written by Dr. Elizabeth Church on balancing
work and family life.
We have are members of the National Student Health Care Communication Link. This is a
student-run group organized with the purpose of facilitating communication between organizations for students in health care fields in Canada.
We have submitted several sessions for the upcoming annual CPA conference, including:
Grant Writing/Applying for Student Funding; Tips on Applying to Graduate School; How-to
Guide on Getting the Most out of Graduate School; and Effective Strategies for Teaching
Assistants and New Faculty (co-sponsored by the Section for Teaching). In addition to these
workshops, our section is also co-sponsoring a workshop with the Clinical Section that outlines various jobs that are available post-graduation to Clinical and Counseling Psychology
students, and that features a panel of speakers that have diverse careers in psychology
(e.g., academic; private practitioner; personnel selection in the military).
This year, we will be distributing materials to students via the listserv that will orient them to
student-relevant sessions at the conference, the student social, and other important
Convention information. The student social is an event we put on to allow students at the
conference to meet and have fun. We have moved to distributing the material via email in
order to ensure that students obtain the material and to decrease paper and financial
resources. We will have a one-page handout available at the Convention highlighting some of
the important information such as student-relevant sessions.
We continued to work with Dr. Dozois, Science Leader, to develop a presentation on possible careers paths for undergraduate students in Psychology.
We recruited a Student Representative to serve on the Scientific Affairs Committee.
We have an executive member who will be one of two Student Representatives on the CPA
Foundation Student Research Grants Review Committee. We are currently collecting applications for the second position.
We have started to draft Section by-laws, and are using CPA’s model by-laws as a template.
We have liasoned with the Student Representative on the Convention Committee to help
organize the student social and other events at the Convention. We are considering having
this position become a formal position on the Student Executive, and will be discussing this
with the current Student Representative.
We are currently creating a poster to distribute to Campus Representatives and departments
to promote CPA to students and encourage membership.
We would like to thank CPA for being so supportive of the Section for Students. We feel we
have a dynamic Executive and are proud of the excellent relationships with those we work with
at CPA.
Kelly Smith, Chair
TEACHING
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Matters dealt with at the annual Section Business Meeting (SBM) in Calgary on June 10, 2006
were: (a) adoption of the Minutes of the 2005 SBM; (b) acceptance of the Treasurer’s Report,
which projected a balance of approximately $250 by the end of the 2006-2007 budget year; (c)
acceptance of the Report of the Chair; (d) support for the suggestion that the Chair continue in
this position as well as that of Treasurer; and (e) consideration of a number of ideas for
Section presentations for CPA 2007.
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Developments since the SBM include: (e) the review of submissions for presentation at the
Annual Convention; (b) discussions about possible collaborations with CPA or/and other sections to attract an Invited Speaker with an international reputation for future conventions; and
(c) consideration of suggestions re a Section newsletter and webpage.
Apropos (b) above, at CPA Calgary, the Keynote Address to the Section was given by Dr.
William Buskist of Auburn University. Dr. Buskist is the 2007 President of the Society for the
Teaching of Psychology (formerly known as Division Two of the American Psychological
Association), and has asked me, as Chair of the Section, to be part of a task force charged
with “explor[ing] and suggest[ing] ways for increasing collaborative work on the teaching of psychology and the scholarship of teaching and learning among psychologists in the US and
Canada.” At CPA Ottawa, I shall be actively looking for Section members who might wish to be
part of this initiative.
CPA Ottawa will feature upwards of a dozen teaching-related presentations. (1) Drs. Ken
Cramer (University of Windsor) and Bill Owen (University of Northern British Columbia) will
mount the Section Program in the form of a workshop titled “Developing a teaching portfolio:
How to communicate your teaching practices to better your chances for a new faculty position
or being granted tenure/promotion.” (2) Our Section and the Section on Students in Psychology
are again jointly sponsoring a teaching workshop; this year the workshop will consider
“Effective Teaching Strategies for Teaching Assistants and New Faculty” (Saturday, June 9,
1:00 p.m.). (3) A symposium dealing with fostering active learning through applied experiences
in graduate psychology courses will include oral papers on (i) teaching students organizational
intervention skills, (ii) the benefits of incorporating social action in teaching, and (iii) experiences with a problem-based learning approach to teaching. (4) A theory review session will
examine obstacles to the acceptance of online courses and programmes. (5) Three conversation sessions will consider, respectively, a first-year Psychology and French thematic learning
community, internship models and competencies, and an “intelligent approach” to assessment. (6) Posters will include examinations of (i) students’ perceptions of “learning, coercion
and fun” in “research, attending class and writing exams,” (ii) autonomy support, competence
support, and relatedness in the classroom, and (iii) personality correlates of academic performance (Poster Session B, June 7, 1:00 - 2:55 p.m.).
Dr. Margaret Matlin, noted textbook author and recipient of a number of major teaching
awards, continues as the liaison with APA’s Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Dr. Matlin,
whose association with our Section is greatly appreciated, can be reached at the Department
of Psychology, SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, New York (716/2455205).
Section membership continues to be healthy, specifically, 63 non-student members and
14 student members. The continued assistance of members in expanding the Section and its
visibility (particularly among student members) is strongly encouraged. Nominal annual Section
dues ($5.00) in large part enable the Section to sponsor an eminent Invited Speaker approximately every five years; past invitees on this august list have included Phil Zimbardo, Margaret
Matlin, Bill McKeachie, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., and William Buskist.
Any questions, comments and/or suggestions about the Section on Teaching of Psychology
may be directed to me at King’s University College, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, Ontario N6A
2M3 (519-433-3491 Ext. 4408; fax 519-433-0353; e-mail [email protected]).
Nicholas F. Skinner, Chair
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Section Executive
Coordinator: Charlene Senn; Past-Coordinator: Connie M. Kristiansen; Secretary/Treasurer:
Noreen Stuckless; Newsletter Editor: Paula Barata; Membership Coordinator: Brenda Bettridge;
Nomination Coordinator: Sandra Pyke; Abstract Review Coordinator: Maria Gurevich; Graduate
Student Representative: Suzanne Cooper; Student Awards Coordinator: E.B. Brownlie; SWAPCPA Board Liaison: Elizabeth Church; SWAP-SPW Liaison: Joanne Gallivan; Status of Women
Committee Chair: Erika Horwitz.
Convention Activities
SWAP had a very successful convention in 2006. SWAP sponsored a number of events in
Calgary including 1 workshop, two symposia, and two conversation sessions. SWAP also cosponsored a CPA Invited Address with the Counselling Psychology and Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity Issues Sections. Laura Brown’s presentation, “Psychotherapy at the
Intersection of Multiple Identities” attracted a large and enthusiastic audience. Our Section
Keynote Address was provided by 2005 Distinguished Member award winner Sandra Byers and
was titled “Women, Men, and Sexual Satisfaction: Similarities and Differences.” SWAP hosted
a very successful social hour immediately afterward. SWAP also co-sponsored, with the
Sections on International and Cross Cultural Psychology and Social and Personality Psychology,
a symposium tribute to Kenneth Dion (1944-2004), Exploring Prejudice and Discrimination.
SWAP has a number of activities planned for 2007 in Ottawa, including an exciting pre-convention institute, Advocacy, Activism and Policy Change: Is Feminist Psychology Making a
Difference? organized by graduate student representative, Suzanne Cooper. Our 2006
Distinguished Member award winner, Hilary Lips, will present the Section Keynote address,
“Documenting and understanding the gender pay gap: A social psychological perspective”. We
will also be sponsoring two symposia, four theory review sessions and one conversation session in addition to many poster presentations.
Section Membership
The Section is very healthy at more than 170 members. We have reduced the fee for Student
Members by half to ensure that we are financially accessible.
Awards
The 2006 SWAP Distinguished Member Award was awarded to Hilary Lips and the Feminist
Mentoring Award to Alex Rutherford. Neither award winner was able to be present at our meeting so tributes were read and the plaques mailed out to them.
Our Section prioritizes support for students with $1500 distributed in awards each year. This
year was no exception with one $500 Student Paper Prize and five $200 travel awards distributed.
Newsletter and Web Site
Three newsletters were published over the year by Paula Barata. Paula completed our transition to an email distribution system which saves us considerable money but has necessitated
a new format. Only a handful of our members still receive the “paper” version of the newsletter.
The SWAP web site was quite out of date so with Nigel Flear’s assistance we have recently
“migrated” the pages over to the CPA site to make updating it easier.
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Other Initiatives
Jean Pettifor, Judi Malone, and Elizabeth Church, under the auspices of our Status of Women
committee, completed their reworking of the CPA (1980) guidelines on therapy and counseling
with women. The revised guidelines were given final approval by the CPA Board and are now
available for download as a CPA publication from the CPA web pages. We are planning a special symposium next year to explore these guidelines in various contexts.
Charlene Senn, Chair
RURAL
AND NORTHERN PSYCHOLOGY
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The Rural and Northern Psychology Section has enjoyed a productive year and witnessed a significant growth in its membership. The section has welcomed over 60 new members, bringing
our current membership to 208. The section bylaws have been approved by the CPA board. Our
next step will be to develop a role description for a Student Representative position and vote
on amending our existing bylaws to include this position on the Executive Committee. At the
present time, the Executive Committee consists of Dr. Karen Dyck, Chair, Dr. Henry Harder,
Chair-Elect, and Dr. Cindy Hardy, Secretary-Treasurer.
With input from its members, the section newsletter has been officially named “The View from
Here: Perspectives in Rural and Northern Psychology.” Thanks to the hard work of Dr. Cindy
Hardy (Editor) and Ms. Kari Harder (design and layout) the newsletter is currently being published twice per year.
We’ve recently had a couple of members come forward to take on the responsibility of setting
up and monitoring a section listserv and look forward to this being up and running in the very
near future! The section continues to work towards the enhancement of its’ existing website.
Thanks to the hard work of a number of members, the section reviewed several submissions
for the upcoming CPA Convention. With three conversation sessions, one symposium, one theory review session, and three posters our section will definitely have a more prominent presence this year!
Karen G. Dyck, Chair
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CPA Historian
My primary activity during my seventh year as CPA Historian involved maintaining the CPA
Archives website. This included: 1) managing the transition of the CPA Archives website following the launch of the new CPA website and 2) revising and up-dating the CPA Archives website
to reflect recent changes to a) the physical layout of work areas at Library and Archives Canada
(LAC), b) policy and procedures governing research at LAC, and c) the LAC website.
Other activities have included: 1) Preparing new material to be posted under the “On-line
Archives” section of the CPA Archives website; 2) Serving as a resource person for those working on the history of the Canadian Psychological Association and the history of Canadian psychology more generally; 3) Responding to inquiries regarding the Canadian Psychological
Association fonds at LAC; 4) Assisting researchers gain access to and copies of restricted textual and auditory material located at LAC; 5) Providing detailed instructions to researchers
interested in obtaining textual material from LAC without having to travel to Ottawa; 6) Advising
researchers on how to reference archival materials; 7) Assisting undergraduate and graduate
students in Canada with their research; 8) Conducting an extensive search on behalf of a
researcher interested in establishing the exact whereabouts of instruments said to have
belonged to John B. Watson and donated by Dr. Reginald Bromiley to the Canadian
Psychological Association some three decades ago; 9) Providing this same researcher with
copies of documents associated with the acquisition of these instruments that I located at the
University of Toronto Archives; 10) Preparing a report for the CPA Board of Directors regarding
the CPA Historian’s position and my plans, as CPA Historian, for 2007; 11) Locating, reproducing and sending a large packet of primary source material - currently inaccessible to
researchers - to a member of the Association preparing a paper for a special anniversary symposium; 12) Locating photographs of prominent Canadian psychologists for a) a member of the
Association and b) a Canadian textbook publisher; 13) Meeting and corresponding with Mr.
Larry McNally of LAC regarding CPA’s archival affairs and issues related to LAC; 14) Continuing
to review the restrictions placed on the interviews that comprise the “Oral history of
Psychology” series at LAC; 15) Continuing to work on CPA’s photographic collection; 16) Taking
preliminary steps towards developing a formal policy regarding the creation/acquisition, exhibition, preservation and archiving of photographs for CPA’s Board of Directors; 17) Advising faculty teaching courses on the History of Psychology on course material pertaining to the history of
Canadian Psychology; 18) Keeping John Service, CPA’s Executive Director, informed about my
activities as CPA Historian.
Katalin Dzinas, CPA Historian
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CPA Representations
HEALTH CARE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (HCAC)
WITH
CORRECTIONAL SERVICE CANADA (CSC)
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The undersigned continued to represent CPA and chair the Health Care Advisory Committee
which advises the Commissioner of Correctional Services Canada on matters related to all
health care within CSC. The members of the Committee, which consists of representatives
from the Canadian Dental, Medical, Nursing, Psychiatric and Public Health Associations, visits
two of the five regions per year and carries out site visits in the Institutions to meet with various CSC staff and inmates. Following these visits, the HCAC holds meetings with the relevant
CSC officials to review relevant health care issues and policies that affect inmates within the
federal system. For the year 2006-2007 the visits were conducted in the Pacific and Prairie
Regions. The undersigned reviewed William Head Institution, Vancouver Island, BC and the
Regional Treatment Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Dr. Christiane Richard, MD, from Montréal resigned after many years of dedication as a member and as past Chairperson of the Health Care Advisory Committee. Her knowledge and experience with health care will be missed.
Mr. Keith Coulter, the Commissioner of CSC, attended the Committee meeting held in the
Pacific Region. A new governance structure of health care services has been accepted where
accountability for service delivery will be the responsibility of a new Assistant Commissioner of
Health Care Services. The five psychiatric treatment facilities, however, will continue to report
regionally to the Assistant Deputy Commissioners of Institutional Operations and have a functional relationship with that of Health Care Services.
The pilot tattoo program, which was introduced in 2006 was discontinued across the country.
The Committee members continue to support the implementation of such a program in the context of harm reduction strategies for infectious disease. The Committee was asked to advise
on the implementation of a total smoking ban within its institutions. A response was prepared
based on experiences gained in other health communities implementing such a ban.
Yvette L. Thériault, CPA Representative
NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ACTIVE
IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (NAACJ)
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During the 2006-2007 year, the undersigned continued to represent the Canadian
Psychological Association on the National Associations Active in Criminal Justice (NAACJ),
which is an ‘umbrella’ organization for various voluntary sector and professional organizations
that are national in scope and have a particular interest in Canada’s justice system. NAACJ is
funded by an operating grant from federal ministry of Public Safety and Emergency
Preparedness and currently consists of 18 organizations.
Over the past year, I attended two NAACJ-sponsored events, both of which were consultation
meetings with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). As similar forum, traditionally held
annually, with the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has now been cancelled for the second
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year in a row, setting a disturbing trend and suggesting that the DOJ appears to have withdrawn from these kinds of public consultation with its criminal justice partners from the voluntary sector.
The meetings with CSC covered a wide range of topics of interest to both government and the
voluntary agencies. The first meeting focused on CSC’s announced plans to develop more thorough services for (federal) mentally disordered offenders in the community. Funds have been
sought, and later received as per the 2007 budget of the federal government. The Mental
Health Strategy includes increased services and a mental health screening assessment tool,
which is now being piloted in BC. The community mental health initiative calls for increased
staffing (social workers and psychiatric nurses), increased contracted professional services, a
mental health training package to be delivered nationally, and a public education and citizen
engagement component. This is a multi-year endeavour, with the expectation that augmented
services will be in evidence by the end of 2007.
A second consultation was attended by numerous senior civil servants including Commissioner
Keith Coulter. The agenda covered a wide range of topics including the use of tasers, CSC
smoking policy, managing the changing offender profile, and the pending CSC Report on Plans
and Priorities to Treasury Board. Dr. Larry Motiuk also attended and spoke of both the research
initiatives undertaken by the Branch for which he was formerly responsible and the numerous
programs that CSC has undertaken lately. The meeting also included a discussion lead by
Elizabeth White of St Leonard’s Society on the need for a broad-based community corrections
strategy developed collaboratively by correctional agencies in the public service and the voluntary sector as well as local municipalities.
In response to three bills under review by parliament, NAACJ prepared a Crime Information
Sheet in 2006, which is available from the undersigned.
A research Brief entitled “Bill C-27, Reverse Onus and Dangerous Offenders” was prepared in
March 2007. The bill was defeated in Parliament. An annotated bibliography on legal publications pertaining to youth justice in Canada, Youth Justice Sources, was also prepared. Both are
available from the undersigned
The Annual General Meeting of NAACJ was held on March 27, 2007. Much of the concern
amongst member agencies revolves around the question of receiving sustaining funds for FY
07/08. The terms of reference for the NAACJ/CSC consultations appear to be an ongoing
issue of some confusion.
It is anticipated that details about these and other NAACJ items will be conveyed by the undersigned to the CPA membership at the annual business meeting of the Criminal Justice
Psychology Section in Ottawa in June, 2007.
J. Stephen Wormith, CPA Representative
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COUNCIL OF CANADIAN
DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY
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As my first year as the Executive Director of the CCDP ends, I submit this report to the
Canadian Psychological Association as a board member representing CCDP.
The activities of CCDP this year were similar in many ways to past years. Our website allows
department heads to access information and past surveys facilitating the transition of new
leaders in psychology departments. Our email Listserve has had symposium announcements
and many position postings. However, attempts at getting names and email addresses of
newly hired Canadian faculty to assist them in their new roles were thwarted by recently enacted privacy legislation. Communication among department heads continues to be facilitated by
our Listserve that has posted a variety of topics and discussions including:
Undergraduate grade credit for research participation – discussion in this area focused on
course credit and problems associated with student participants not showing up for scheduled
research appointments.
Clinical faculty registration fees – how do universities deal with registration fees of clinical faculty who are required by law to register as psychologists in order to supervise graduate students with their clients?
Survey on teaching releases – Dr. Keith Dobson will make a presentation on this survey at the
June 2007 meeting of CCDP following the CPA convention.
Course loads and teaching assistants – Dr. Kathryn Belicki will report on this survey at the
June 2007 meeting.
Clinical skills teaching and supervision by core faculty – academics who teach and supervise
clinical skills may be disadvantaged if these activities reduce their research productivity. How
can graduate clinical programs support core clinical faculty?
On behalf of CCDP, I attended the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, our U.S.
sister organization. Among the topics discussed was the end of APA accreditation of
Canadian programs, the continued increase of undergraduate psychology majors but a limited
national political influence of psychology within the U.S. government, and the continued
increase of female undergraduate psychology majors. One presenter decried undergraduates’
confusion of psychology as a science with psychology as a séance.
One of the agendas for the executive director of CCDP in the coming year is to explore a rapprochement between CPA and the Canadian Society for Brian, Behaviour and Cognitive
Science.
I am impressed at the calibre of the people that I have dealt with over the year and the contributions and cooperation shown by them. In particular, I want to thank Pat O’Neill who, in
essence, continued his role as Executive Director, Emeritus, of CCDP through his prompt and
thorough responses to my many requests for direction and advice on a myriad of issues. I
would also like to thank Doug Crawford for his work with the Canadian Council for Animal Care;
Gordon Hayman, the CCDP website moderator; and Laurence Harris, our Listserve moderator.
G. Ron Frisch, Executive Director
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We have audited the statement of financial position of the Canadian Psychological Association
as at December 31, 2006 and the statements of operations, changes in fund balances and
cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the
Association's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with Canadian generally accepted auditing standards.
Those standards require that we plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
In our opinion these financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of the Association as at December 31, 2006 and the results of its operations and its
cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting
principles. As required by the Canada Corporations Act, we report that, in our opinion, these
principles have been applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year.
Chartered Accountants
Ottawa, Canada
March 20, 2007
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CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Statement of Financial Position
December 31, 2006, with comparative figures for 2005
2006
2005
$470,753
–
56,453
81,890
28,345
$990,191
493,975
146,107
793,484
34,973
637,441
2,458,730
1,032,307
844,673
208,748
252,178
$1,878,496
$3,555,581
$165,777
694,330
773
860,880
$1,786,210
636,062
(1,064)
2,421,208
Assets
Current assets:
Cash
Short-term investments
Accounts receivable
Primary Health Care Transition Fund receivable
Prepaid expenses and advances
Long-term investments (market value $1,132,197;
2005 - $977,203)
Capital assets (note 3)
Liabilities and Fund Balances
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Deferred revenue (note 4)
Due to (from) the Foundation (note 2)
Leasehold inducements
Fund balances:
Investment in capital assets
Restricted (note 5)
Unrestricted
35,804
40,526
208,748
88,674
684,390
981,812
252,178
119,875
721,794
1,093,847
$1,878,496
$3,555,581
Commitments and contingent liabilities (notes 7 and 8)
See accompanying notes to financial statements.
On behalf of the Members:
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Statement of Operations
Year ended December 31, 2006, with comparative figures for 2005
Revenue:
Membership fees
Less: allocation to journal subscriptions
Less: allocation to abstracts
Investment
Miscellaneous
Foreign exchange gain (loss)
Sections processing charge
Journals (note 6)
Annual convention (note 6)
Accreditation panel
Psynopsis
Abstracts
New Media
Representation
CPA Workshops
Publications
Primary Health Care Transition
Expenses:
Administration
Less overhead allocation (note 1(i))
Journal subscriptions
Annual convention
Accreditation panel
Psynopsis
New Media
Representation
IUPsyS
CPA Workshops
Publications
Advocacy
Primary Health Care Transition
Excess (deficiency) of revenue over expenses
2006
2005
$1,008,590
(155,049)
(70,560)
782,981
57,724
79,573
2,399
5,427
928,104
$918,256
(146,194)
(69,380)
702,682
33,683
177,412
(1,876)
5,065
916,966
309,715
259,364
132,225
20,180
72,875
55,350
1,443
53,565
20,175
6,990
1,859,986
324,472
250,765
132,017
30,657
71,715
43,250
1,585
32,335
21,939
5,033,984
6,859,685
1,022,530
(153,425)
869,105
258,483
362,461
168,142
48,014
25,424
47,043
5,473
77,908
10,710
7,163
92,095
1,972,021
835,354
(199,378)
635,976
286,632
289,647
128,371
52,344
19,030
268,551
–
80,139
14,193
13,833
5,033,984
6,822,700
$(112,035)
$36,985
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Statement of Changes in Fund Balances
Investment in
capital assets
Restricted
(note 5)
Unrestricted
Total
2006
Total
2005
$252,178
$119,875
$721,794
$1,093,847
$1,056,862
–
(39,088)
(72,947)
(112,035)
36,985
14,526
–
(14,526)
–
–
(57,956)
–
57,956
–
–
–
7,887
(7,887)
–
–
$208,748
$88,674
$684,390
$981,812
$1,093,847
Fund balances, beginning
of year
Excess (deficiency) of
revenue over expenses
Capital asset purchases
Amortization of capital assets
Interfund transfers
Fund balances, end of year
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Statement of Cash Flows
2006
2005
$(112,035)
$36,985
Cash provided by (used in):
Operations:
Excess (deficiency) of revenue over expenses
Items not involving cash:
Amortization of capital assets
Amortization of leasehold inducements
Net change in non-cash working capital balances:
Accounts receivable
Prepaid expenses and advances
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
Due to (from) the Foundation
Deferred revenue
Primary Health Care Transition receivable
Investing and financing activities:
Capital asset purchases
Decrease (increase) in long-term investments
Leasehold inducements
57,956
(4,722)
59,470
(2,361)
89,654
6,628
(1,620,433)
1,837
58,268
711,594
(811,253)
(46,754)
(1,491)
1,427,008
(2,681)
25,525
(1,192,300)
303,401
(14,526)
(187,634)
–
(202,160)
(16,766)
115,999
21,247
120,480
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
(1,013,413)
423,881
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year
1,484,166
1,060,285
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year
$470,753
$1,484,166
Cash and cash equivalents consist of:
Cash
Short-term investments
$470,753
–
$990,191
493,975
Cash and cash equivalents, end of year
$470,753
$1,484,166
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Notes to Financial Statements
Year ended December 31, 2006
The Canadian Psychological Association (the “Association”) was organized in 1939 and incorporated under
the Canada Corporations Act, part II in May 1950, as a non-profit organization. Its mission is to advance
and promote psychology for the benefit of all. Its objectives are:
•
To improve the psychological health and welfare of all Canadians;
•
To promote excellence and innovation in psychological research, education and practice;
•
To promote the advancement, development, dissemination, and application of psychological knowledge; and
•
To provide high quality services to members.
1. Significant accounting policies:
(a) Fund accounting:
The Canadian Psychological Association follows the restricted fund method of accounting for not-forprofit organizations.
The unrestricted fund accounts for the Association’s program delivery, journal subscriptions and
administrative activities. Restricted funds report the revenue, expenses and fund balances of the
activities of the Association for which the funding is restricted to that activity.
(b) Short-term investments:
Short-term investments are stated at cost which approximates market value.
(c) Long-term investments:
Long-term investments are recorded at cost. If the market value of investments becomes lower than
cost and this decline in value is considered to be other than temporary, the investments are writtendown to market value.
(d) Leasehold inducements:
Leasehold inducements are deferred and amortized over the term of the lease. Annual amortization
is recorded as a credit to rent expense.
(e) Revenue recognition:
Membership fees and journal subscriptions are collected on a calendar year basis and are recognized
as revenue in the year to which the membership or subscription relate. Fees and subscriptions collected prior to the membership or subscription year are recorded as deferred revenue.
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Notes to Financial Statements, page 2
1. Significant accounting policies (continued):
(e) Revenue recognition (continued):
Accreditation panel fees are levied on an annual basis for the period of September 1 to August 31
and are recognized as revenue in the year to which they relate. The portion of the collected fees relating to the period of January 1 to August 31 is recorded as deferred revenue at December 31.
(f) Membership fee allocations:
Membership fees are levied for two purposes: to support the general activities of the Association and
to contribute towards the cost of publication of journals. The Association allocates $14.50 of each
member’s fees to journal revenue for each journal a member receives, to a maximum of two per member. The Association allocates $5.00 of each member’s fees to abstracts revenue.
(g) Sections processing charge:
The Association and its 23 Sections represent the interests and promote the advancement of the discipline of psychology in Canada. The Association has control over the Sections of the Association.
The Association collects funding from its members on behalf of the Sections. The financial operations, resources and obligations of each Section are individually immaterial in relation to the
Association. Management has determined that the cost of collecting the information exceeds the
benefit that would be derived from providing this information. For this reason and because of the
number of Sections, they have not been consolidated or disclosed in these financial statements.
(g) Capital assets:
Capital assets are recorded at cost, and amortized over their estimated useful lives as follows:
Asset
Office furniture and equipment
Computer equipment
Software
Leasehold improvements
Basis
Annual Rate
Declining balance
Straight-line
Straight-line
Over term of lease
20%
5%
3 years
10 years
Amortization commences in the year subsequent to acquisition, except for leasehold improvements
where amortization commences in the year purchased.
(i) Overhead allocation:
A portion of administration expense is allocated as overhead to Journals, Annual Convention,
Accreditation Panel, Psynopsis, New Media, Representation, IUPsyS, CPA Workshops, Publications, and
Advocacy in amounts equal to 18% of their respective expenses and to Primary Health Care Transition
as allowed under the contribution agreement.
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1. Significant accounting policies (continued):
(j) Use of estimates:
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of
assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial
statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the year. Actual results could
differ from these estimates. These estimates are reviewed periodically and as adjustments become
necessary, they are reported in the years in which they become known.
2. Related party transaction:
The Association has an economic interest in the Canadian Psychological Association Foundation (the
“Foundation”). The Association is related to the Foundation by having common members of the Board of
Directors and common management. The Foundation was incorporated on March 8, 2002 under Part II of
the Canada Corporations Act and is a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada).
The Foundation’s objectives are to advance education, provide support for the development of educational
materials, to carry out or support research, to award scholarships, bursaries and grants to students, to provide for the development of endowed chairs in the field of psychology and to transfer funding to registered
charities that support the same interests.
During the year, the Association provided the Foundation with office space and administrative services without charge. During the year, the Association paid expenses for and collected revenue on behalf of the
Foundation, resulting in a payable of $773 at December 31, 2006 (2005 – payable of $Nil).
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3. Capital assets:
Office furniture and
equipment
Computer equipment
Software
Leasehold improvements
Cost
Accumulated
amortization
2006
Net book
value
2005
Net book
value
$99,540
187,152
128,120
177,305
$54,809
159,714
115,655
53,191
$44,731
27,438
12,465
124,114
$52,631
23,773
33,930
141,844
$592,117
$383,369
$208,748
$252,178
Cost and accumulated amortization as at December 31, 2005 amounted to $577,591 and $325,413
respectively.
4. Deferred revenue:
Deferred revenue consists of the following:
Membership fees
Accreditation panel fees
Journal subscriptions
Ethnopolitical Warfare
Representation donations
Convention
IUPsyS
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P S Y C H O L O G Y
F O R
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2006
2005
$587,603
67,200
27,094
10,813
1,220
400
–
$536,467
51,765
2,343
10,813
1,113
–
33,561
$694,330
$636,062
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5. Restricted net assets:
Balance,
beginning of
year
Excess
(deficiency)
of revenue
over
expenses
Transferred
from
Unrestricted
Balance,
end of
year
$62,240
$9,465
$ –
$71,705
–
(7,163)
7,163
–
Accreditation Panel Fund
35,193
(35,917)
724
–
IUPsyS Fund
22,442
(5,473)
–
16,969
$119,875
$(39,088)
$7,887
$88,674
Publications Reserve
Fund
Advocacy Reserve Fund
Restricted net assets are funds committed for specific purposes, which reflect the application of the
Association’s reserve policy as follows:
(a) The Publications Reserve Fund represents an internally dedicated source of funds for new publications
or future editions of current publications.
(b) The Advocacy Reserve Fund is established as an internally dedicated long-term source of funds available to the Association for unexpected contingencies.
(c) The Accreditation Panel Fund is established as an internally dedicated source of funds for accreditation activities and related special projects.
(d) The IUPsyS Fund is an externally restricted fund and was established in 1996 to fund attendance at
IUPsyS conferences and the annual general meeting.
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6. Grant revenue:
The Association received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(“SSHRCC”) as noted below.
Journals (Canadian Psychology and Canadian Journal of
Behavioural Science)
Annual convention travel
2006
2005
$49,592
41,261
$60,000
41,261
$90,853
$101,261
This grant revenue has been included in journal subscriptions and annual conventions in the statement of
operations.
7. Commitments:
The Association is committed to payments under operating leases for office space which expire April 2006
and July 2014. The minimum aggregate rent payable to the expiry dates is as follows:
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
to 2014
$ 56,657
56,657
58,439
60,933
60,933
157,412
$ 451,031
8. Contingent liabilities:
The Association allows employees to accrue sick days and carry them forward to future years to be used as
short-term disability, as necessary. These amounts do not vest with the employee and have not been
recorded in these financial statements.
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9. Fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities:
The carrying values of cash, short-term investments, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued
liabilities and due to the Foundation approximate their fair values due to the relatively short periods to
maturity of the instruments.
The fair value of long-term investments is disclosed in the statement of financial position.
10. Comparative figures:
Certain 2005 comparative figures have been reclassified to conform with the financial statement presentation adopted for 2006.
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